Implementation of the Multiplus/Multiplix Parallel Processing Environment

• Júlio S. Aude UFRJ
• Alexandre M. Meslin UFRJ
• Aluisio A. Cruz UFRJ
• Cláudio M. P. Santos UFRJ
• Gerson Bronstein UFRJ
• Iuri N. Cota UFRJ
• Luiz F. M. Cordeiro UFRJ
• Márcio O. Barros UFRJ
• Mário João Jr. UFRJ
• Serafim B. Pinto UFRJ
• Sidney C. Oliveira UFRJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbac-pad.1995.19892

Resumo

The MULTIPLUS project aims at the development of a modular distributed shared memory parallel architecture able to support up to 1024 processing elements based on SPARC microprocessors and at the implementation of MULPLIX, a Unix-like operating system which provides a suitable parallel programming environment for the MULTIPLUS architecture. After reviewing the main features of the definition of the MULTIPLUS architecture and the MULPLIX operating system, this paper describes in detail the current implementation of the main modules of the MULTIPLUS architecture and presents, with an illustration example, the parallel programming primitives already implemented within MULPLIX.

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