Um Multicomputador com Sistema Experimental de Comunicação

• Cesar Albenes Zeferino UFSC
• Hermann Adolf Harry Lücke UFSC
• Valeria Alves da Silva UFSC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbac-pad.1995.19859

Abstract

This paper describes a multicomputer with flexible comunication system, based on an hierarquical comunication structure. A comunication network with bipontual chanels, switched by a crossbar, transfers large messages between nodes. A service bus is used to perform the passing of little messages, that come from the working node with informations about the solicitated connections. A centralized node establishes these connections dinamically. The present paper describes the architecture of multicomputer and some details about an implementation based on PC-AT 486 computers and transputer link, beyond some estimates about the machine's performance.

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