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Massively Parallel Computation: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Designs

Nikolay N. Mirenkov,
Professor, Distributed Parallel Processing Laboratory

An important question that motivates this project is: whether or not asynchronism helps to reduce the communication penalty and the overall solution time of a given algorithm. Our goals are to compare and contrast the synchronous and asynchronous designs both theoretically and experimentally. We develop synchronous and/or asynchronous implementations which utilize the underlying structures and study the complexities of the implementations.


a-fujitu@edumng1.u-aizu.ac.jp
Fri Feb 10 09:19:38 JST 1995