tan@oakhill.UUCP (11/21/87)
Hello every body: I am trying to understand the communication needs between processors/computers in a multi-processors/micro-computers (ucomputer) system. I would appreciate any help that you can give me. Some of the standard features are: .They should be real world systems, i.e., systems with practical applications (those that can be manufactured and marketed). .They are multi-processor or multi-ucomputer systems. .Each processor/ucomputer should have the power of at least a 16-bit processor/ucomputer (68000's family ucomputer is prefered). The kind of information I am looking for are: .What are the applications? (Ex.: Speech/Image processing) .What are the interconnection techniques? (Ex.: SIMD, MIMD, Star, Ring, Mesh, others) .What are some of the busing scheme being used? (Ex.: VME bus, Nu bus, others) .What hardware hooks are required for efficient parallel processing? (I/O bandwidth, bus sizes, speed, the number of serial and parallel ports, DMA capability, etc.) .Are there any critcal elements that I have left out? .Are there any "watch-outs" that I should be aware of? Any help and all help are greatly appriciated. Please E-mail your responses to me. If there are others interested in the same information, I would be happy to pass them along or combine them into one posting. Bye, for now. -- Motorola Inc. Tan Nhat Dao (Tan Can Do) "Where I lived in Viet Nam (Gia Dinh) System Designer there were two seasons: wet and dry" 6501 William Cannon Drive West "Where I live in the U.S. (Texas) Austin, Texas 78735-8598 there are two seasons: hot and cold" (512) 440-2926 sun!oakhill!tan tan@oakhill.UUCP
jb@otter.hple.hp.com (Jason Brown) (02/23/88)
To the World, I have mailed a response in the notes file comp.ai. Its titled Parallel processing. I would appreciate it if you would read this and hopefully reply to it. Cheers jb