Competition As An Organizational Principle For Massively Parallel Computers?
Wolfgang Banzhaf · 2005
We discuss the idea of using competition as a guiding principle for organizing a parallel computer. We argue that competitive interactions are ubiquous in many systems and deserve to be looked at in parallel computing. We outline some relevant questions which have to be answered in this context. Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Physics and Computation Dallas, TX, 1992 IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos pp. 229 --- 231 1 Introduction Physicists tend to consider computation from the point of view of first principles. What is information ?, the relation between information and negative entropy, the minimum energy required for a certain computation are typical questions addressed from that point of view [1] - [4]. In this paper we want to look at computation from another point of view. With the advent of massively parallel computers of 10 3 to 10 6 processing elements (PEs) over the next decade [5, 6], the study of computation as a problem of organization becomes m...