aw@duke.cs.duke.edu (Angus Wang) (11/13/87)
Can anyone suggest some clear & informative books or sources on the architecture, memory systems, etc. for the MPP and the Connection Machine. Please e-mail any responses to aw@cs.duke.edu Thanks in advance.
rajiv@im4u.UUCP (Rajiv N. Patel) (11/13/87)
Reference for the Connection Machine: The Connection Machine -by- W. Daniel Hillis The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England. This book covers the dissertation of the author.
tbridg@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (11/18/87)
Reference for the MPP: GER-17272 (A Goodyear Tech Report) has been included as a chapter in: The Book of Supercomputers Edited by S. Fernbach North-Holland Publishing Company Actually, I haven't seen this book, but the Goodyear Tech report that I have points to it as "to appear". If you can't find it any- where else, let me know & I will send you a copy.
eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) (11/19/87)
Geez!
MIT Press has published books on both the Connection Machine (Hi Danny!
thanks for letting me know you read comp.arch) and the MPP (Massively
Parallel Processor [Computer networks? what are those? ;-)]
%A W. Daniel Hillis
%T The Connection Machine
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%K book,
grecommended,
%X A collection of papers on the ideals of this architecture.
%A J. L. Potter, ed.
%T The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%K MPP, 16,834 bit-slice [sort of] processors, numerical algorithms, SIMD,
%A David H. Schaefer
%T History of the MPP
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 1-5
%A Richard A. White
%T Inversion of Positive Definite Matrices on the MPP
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 7-30
%K Applications,
%X Takes two simple algorithms for inversion and gets multiplication,
transposition, and determinants along the way.
%A Richard A. White
%T Data Structures for Implementing the CLASSY Algorithm on the MPP
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 31-61
%K Applications, adaptive maximum likelihood clustering, statistics,
%A Rudolf O. Faiss
%T Landsat-4 Thematic Mapper Data Processing with the Massive Parallel
Processor
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 62-84
%K MPP, Applications,
%A E. J. Gallopoulos
%T Fluid Dynamics Modeling
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 85-103
%K MPP, Applications,
%A Edward W. Davis
%T Database Management
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 104-123
%K MPP, Applications, update, join,
%A Jerry L. Potter
%T List Based Processing on the MPP
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 124-140
%K Applications, CDAR coding,
%X This is not a paper on MPP based LISP. It talks about implementing LISP
ideas on an MPP architecture.
%A Kenneth E. Batcher
%T The Massively Parallel Processor System Overview
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 142-149
%K MPP, Hardware,
%A Kenneth E. Batcher
%T Array Unit
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 150-169
%K MPP, Hardware,
%A Kenneth E. Batcher
%T Array Control Unit
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 170-190
%K MPP, Hardware,
%A Kenneth E. Batcher
%T Staging Memory
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 191-204
%K MPP, Hardware,
%A John T. Burkley
%T MPP VLSI Multiprocessor Integrated Circuit Design
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 205-216
%K Hardware, HCMOS,
%A J. L. Potter
%T Programming the MPP
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 218-229
%K Software, parallel Pascal, loops, control constructs, SIMD control,
%A Anthony P. Reeves
%T Parallel Pascal and the Massive Parallel Processor
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 230-260
%K Software, SIMD control, bit-slice programming,
%A Kenneth E. Batcher
%T MPP System Software
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 261-275
%K Software, SIMD control, bit-slice programming, MPP assembler,
%A E. J. Gallopoulos
%A Scott D. McEwan
%A Daniel L. Slotnick
%A Andrew J. Spry
%A Daniel J. Kopetzky
%T MPP Program Development and Simulation
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 276-290
%K Software, SIMD control, bit-slice programming, MPP assembler,
%A James R. Fischer
%T Epilogue
%E J. L. Potter
%B The Massively Parallel Processor
%I MIT Press
%C Cambridge, MA
%D 1985
%P 291-295
%K MPP,
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In article <36800003@iuvax> tbridg@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes: >Reference for the MPP: > GER-17272 (A Goodyear Tech Report) has been included as a > chapter in: > The Book of Supercomputers > Edited by S. Fernbach > North-Holland Publishing Company >... I haven't seen the book either, but ANYthing by Sidfern Bach has GOT to be worthwhile. Definitely gonna get meself a copy. Regardz, Ken