Um Servidor de Processamento Paralelo Baseado em Transputers - Aspectos de Implementação

• Marcos José Santana USP
• Onofre Trindade Jr. USP
• Fernão Stella de Rodrigues Germano USP

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbac-pad.1992.22730

Abstract

This work discusses the design and implementation of a Transputer-based parallel processing server (SPP), under development within the Distributed Computing Systems and Concurrent Programming Group at the Computer Science Department, ICMSC-USP. SPP provides the means to share parallel processing resources in a LAN-based distributed computing environment. A prototype server was built with 18 T800 Transputers and has been under experimental utilization. A full implementation can have up to 960 Transputers with a potential processing power in the order of 1.44 GFLOPS.

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