Solving Dynamic and Irregular Problems on SIMD Architectures with Runtime Support
Wei Shu, Min‐You Wu · 1993
One of the essential problems in parallel computing is: can STMD machines handle asynchronous problems? Thas is a dificult, unsolved problem because of the mismatch between asynchronous problems and SIMD archtiectures. We propose a soluiaon to let SIMD machines handle general asynchronous problems. Our approach is to implement a runtime support system which can run MIMD-like software on SIMD hardware. Substantial performance has been obtained on CM-2 and CM-5.