Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Experimentation with Tightly Coupled Multiprocessor System

NCSU的研究人员计划获得一个紧密耦合的多处理器系统，以补充目前正在计算机系统实验室开发的24节点松散耦合多处理器系统B-HIVE。B-HIVE软件的大部分可以与紧耦合系统一起工作，从而提供了一种方便的机制来比较和对比紧耦合和紧密耦合的多处理器系统。这种双系统将为北卡罗莱纳州立大学正在进行的各种并行处理研究项目提供一个实验环境。将对几个项目进行研究，包括：o建筑考虑；多机实现中的软件支持和编译器问题——雷达信号处理应用中SIMD/MIMD架构选择策略和性能评估o紧密耦合多机系统的随机化算法o并行软件的测试与调试o马尔可夫链平稳概率的计算

Researchers at NCSU plan to acquire a tightly-coupled multiprocessor system to complement the 24-node loosely-coupled multiprocessor system, B-HIVE, currently under development in their Computer Systems Laboratory. Much of the B-HIVE software can be adopted to work with the tightly-coupled system thereby providing a convenient mechanism for comparing and contrasting closely-coupled and tightly-coupled multiprocessor systems. This dual system will provide an experimental environment for the various research projects in parallel processing being carried out at North Carolina State University. Research will be performed on several projects, including: o Architectural Consideration, Software Support and Compiler Issues in Multicomputer Implementation o Selection Strategies for SIMD/MIMD Architectures and Performance Evaluation for Radar Signal Processing Applications o Randomized Algorithms for Tightly Coupled Multicomputer System o Testing and debugging of concurrent software o Computing Stationary Probabilities of Markov Chains