Practical experience of run‐time link reconfiguration in a multi‐transputer machine
Peter Lloyd Jones, Alan D. Murta · Concurrency Practice and Experience · 1989
Abstract The paper describes a novel message passing regime for multi‐processor machines using transputers. The development of this facillity was motivated by the disparity between the interconnect available in transputer machines and the arbitary degree of interconnect implicit in the underlying CSP model of computation. The technique presented involves the alteration of the link topology of the machine during run‐time, under the contrl of executing user code. Performance evaluation has been undertaken and the results are given. In particular, it is shown how run‐time reconfiguration leads to performance enhancement for some classes of problems.