GRID COMMUNICATION ON THE CONNECTION MACHINE: ANALYSIS, PERFORMANCE, AND IMPROVEMENTS
Creon Levit · International Journal of High Speed Computing · 1989
We develop an analytical model of grid communication on the connection machine for arbitrary grid geometries over exact power-of-two distances. There is excellent agreement between the model and the measured performance of the CM2. We propose some conceptually simple enhancements to the virtual processor mechanism and to the grid communication microcode which could lead to substantial performance improvements for several important numerical algorithms.