An evaluation of AriDeM parallel architecture model using a case study

M. Tech. Software Development Tshwane University of Technology 2011.The von Neumann model has been for years a successful model of computation architecture in sequential computing. This model provides both consistency and synchronization in the development of computer products such as application algorithms, computer architecture as well as programming languages. The success of this model of sequential computation is due extensively to the fact that it is an efficient bridge between software and hardware: high-level languages can be efficiently compiled on to this model; yet it can be efficiently implemented in hardware. The demand for solving large and complex problems in a relative short time has motivated scientists to improve computational performance by adopting parallel computing. Unfortunately, there has not been the similar success in terms of a unifying model of computation in parallel computing. The need for such a unifying parallel model or set of models is heightened by the greater demand for performance and the greater diversity among machines. The author argues that an equivalent bridge between software and hardware is required for parallel computation since the latter is considered the future of computing. This dissertation expands a little further in motivating the need for a new model of parallel computation and considers one such model called AriDeM