Multicomputers
- Creators
- Athas, William C.
- Seitz, Charles L.
Abstract
This report outlines the history, current status, current developments, and plans for the message-passing concurrent computers, or multicomputers, developed in the Submicron Systems Architecture Project at Caltech. These systems include the Cosmic Cube and its commercial descendants, two second-generation cosmic cubes currently in development, and the Mosaic C, a fine grain multicomputer whose nodes are single VLSI chips. Section 1 introduces the physical architectures, with particular attention to the characteristics of the message-passing networks. Section 2 describes the programming environments for the first and second generation medium grain size "cubes." Section 3 describes a fine grain concurrent object-oriented programming notation called Cantor, which currently runs on cubes and sequential systems, and which will be used for application programming of the Mosaic C.
Files
Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 26680
- Resolver ID
- CaltechCSTR:1987.5244-tr-87
- Created
-
2001-04-24Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
-
2019-10-03Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Computer Science Technical Reports