A Large Scale, Homogenous, Fully Distributed Parallel Machine, II

17 March 1977

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

Vol. 5 (7) , 118-124
https://doi.org/10.1145/633615.810660

Abstract

The present paper complements the hardware proposal for a fully distributed parallel processor presented in “A Large Scale, Homogeneous, Fully Distributed Parallel Machine, I,” by describing a suitable software structure for its operating system management. It is shown that the most basic operating system functions can be performed on a purely local basis, i.e. in such a fashion that identical pieces of the operating systems are concurrently executed by each of the processing elements.

Keywords

INTERCONNECTION NETWORK
PARALLEL PROCESSOR
MIMD MACHINE
PARALLEL MACHINE
PRELIMINARY HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
MEMORY STRUCTURE
HOST-LESS OPERATING SYSTEM
LARGE SCALE
OPERATING SYSTEM

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