Parallel Processing for Supercomputing Speeds .

K. Neelakantan; P.P. Ghosh; M.S. Ganagi; A.V.S.S. Prasad; Anu Khendry; K. Mahesh

doi:10.14429/dsj.43.4322

K. Neelakantan Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.
P.P. Ghosh Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.
M.S. Ganagi Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.
A.V.S.S. Prasad Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.
Anu Khendry Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.
K. Mahesh Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/dsj.43.4322

Keywords: Pace architecture, Parallel processing .

Abstract

The various approaches to improving the speeds of computers by exploiting parallelism is briefly described. The architecture of PACE which is a loosely coupled, message-passing MIMD machine developed by ANURAG is described. PACE is an open architecture which is independent of the specific hardware used for the computing nodes. Several versions of PACE have been configured and the performance figures for some applications are presented.

Author Biographies

K. Neelakantan, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Dr K Neelakantan graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT, Kanpur in 1976.He received his MS and PhD from lIT, Madras in 1981 and 1986 respectively. He joined IGCAR, Kalpakkam in 1976 and worked on the design of electronic instruments and microprocessor-based systems. He joined DRDO in 1987 and has been working on the development of parallel processors and VLSI design. He is presently the Director of ANURAG.

P.P. Ghosh, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Mr PP Ghosh received his BTech from Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 1985, and MTech in Computer Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur in 1987. Since 1988, he is with ANURAG, where he is involved in the design of a 128-processor parallel system, PACE. His research interests include design of high performance computing systems, compilers and computerarchitecture.

M.S. Ganagi, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Dr MS Ganagi, holds a PG degree in Pure Mathematics from Karnatak University for which he was awarded a Gold Meda l (1982). He obtained PhD in 1989 from lISc , Bangalore for his thesis in the area of relativistic fluid dynamics . Since 1988 he is working as a Scientist in
ANURAG. His fields of interest include parallel processing, numerical analysis and other areas mathematics.

A.V.S.S. Prasad, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Mr AVSS Prasad, completed his graduation IETE in 1989. Since 1990 he is with ANURAG, where he is involved in the design of a 128-processor parallel system, PACE .

Anu Khendry, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

K. Mahesh, Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group, Hyderabad.

Mr K Mahesh received his MSc in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University in 1989. He joined ANURAG in 1989.