Computer Performance Prediction of a Data Flow Architecture.

Abstract

Supercomputers capable of performing extremely high speed computation have been proposed which are based on an architecture known as data flow. Application of a Petri net-based methodology is used to evaluate the performance attainable by such an architecture. The architecture evaluated is MIT's cell block data flow architecture which is being developed to execute the applicative programming language VAL. Results show that for the data flow architecture to achieve its goal of high speed computation, intelligent multiprogamming schemes need to be developed. One such scheme, based on the notion of a 'concurrency vector', is introduced. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA104587

Entities

People

  • Daivd John Hogen

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Mathematical Models
  • Multiprogramming
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processors
  • Petri Nets
  • Programming Languages
  • United States Naval Academy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.