A Cost Effective Parallel Processing Laboratory

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This project seeks to establish a parallel-programming laboratory at the Department of Computer Science of Utah State University. The laboratory will be utilized to strengthen the undergraduate program by directly supporting hands-on experience in a new parallel-programming course. In addition, the laboratory will strengthen existing courses in operating systems, graphics, digital signal processing, and artificial intelligence by allowing enhanced coverage of a parallel- processing topics in these disciplines. The laboratory equipment requested consists of four (4) economical yet versatile parallel-processing workstations; each consisting of an AT- class microcomputer host and a subsystem of six (6) Transputer-based parallel processors running Logical Systems C. Each workstation allows students to program parallel routines in a high-level language, load and control network node execution, provide network I/O, and reconfigure network topology from the AT host console.