Performance Measurements and Optimizations
Uwe Glässer · Teubner-Texte zur Informatik · 1993
The current prototype implementation of the parallel FCP machine comprises about 13.000 lines of Par.C code not including the evaluation tools. The performance measurements have been carried out on a Parsytec Supercluster using Par.C System Version 1.22 [Parsec89]. The hardware platform is a fully reconfigurable Transputer system architecture. The present system offers network configurations with up to 320 T800 Transputer nodes, each of which has direct access to 4 MB local RAM. A system of this kind consists of 20 clusters each containing 16 processors together with a 96 × 96 crossbar switch. In a second stage of the network, 8 switches connect 32 external edges of each cluster. A detailed description of the hardware system architecture is presented in [Funke92].