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Practical parallelism using transputer arrays

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PARLE Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe (PARLE 1987)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 258))

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This paper explores methods for extracting parallelism from a wide variety of numerical applications. We investigate communications overheads and load-balancing for networks of transputers. After a discussion of some practical strategies for constructing occam programs, two case studies are analysed in detail.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Southampton, S09 5NH, Southampton, United Kingdom

    D. J. Pritchard, C. R. Askew, D. B. Carpenter, I. Glendinning, A. J. G. Hey & D. A. Nicole

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  1. D. J. Pritchard
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  2. C. R. Askew
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  3. D. B. Carpenter
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J. W. de Bakker A. J. Nijman P. C. Treleaven

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Pritchard, D.J., Askew, C.R., Carpenter, D.B., Glendinning, I., Hey, A.J.G., Nicole, D.A. (1987). Practical parallelism using transputer arrays. In: de Bakker, J.W., Nijman, A.J., Treleaven, P.C. (eds) PARLE Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17943-7_134

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