Issues and Applications Driving Research in Non-Conforming Massively Parallel Processors
Edward W. Davis, Tomas Nordström, Bertil Svensson · 2005
Concepts such as modularity and heterogeneity are becoming important for a growing number of applications that use massively parallel computer architectures. Application areas which seem to require these concepts appear in real world computing and action oriented systems. In many instances the current offerings of high pevormance, parallel, general purpose computers are not well suited to these applications since they do not address issues like real-time, time determinism, heterogeneous communication, physical size, power consumption, etc. These issues are important in special systems that can be viewed as aon orming to general purpose markets. The differences in needs will be explored by looking into two examples of modular and heterogeneous systems: high pe ion systems and action oriented me