In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems; 1989, Newport Beach, CA, USA, pages 490-497. Washington: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1989.
Abstract: A message-passing computer architecture called the modified mesh-connected parallel computer (MMCPC) is proposed and studied. The MMCPC is designed to be general-purpose parallel architecture suitable for wafer-scale integration. Generalized stochastic Petri nets (GSPNs) are used to model the behavior of the MMCPC. The GSPN performance modeling results show a need for a new processing element (PE). A PE architecture, able to handle data processing and message passing concurrently, is proposed.
Keywords: modified mesh-connection; parallel computer; performance; wafer-scale integration GSPN.