CONTROL OF A PARTITIONABLE MULTIMICROPROCESSOR SYSTEM

Abstract — A dynamically reconfigurable large-scale multimicroprocessor system capable of operating as one or more independent SIMD (single instruction stream- multiple data stream) machines and/or MIMD (multiple instruction stream- multiple data stream) machines is described. The system consists of a Parallel Computation Un-it, which contains N processors, N memory modules, and an interconnection network; Q Micro Controll-ers, each controlling N/Q processors; a Memory Management System, to load the N memory modules; and a System Control Unit, to coordinate the other system components. The way in which the Micro Controllers can form varying size groups of pro-cessors in this partitionable SIMD/MIMD environ-ment is discussed. I