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Pipelined Decomposable BSP Computers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2002

Martin Beran
Martin Beran*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic; beran@ms.mff.cuni.cz.
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Abstract

The class of weak parallel machines is interesting, because it contains somerealistic parallel machine models, especially suitable for pipelinedcomputations. We prove that a modification of the bulk synchronous parallel(BSP) machine model, called decomposable BSP (dBSP), belongs to the class ofweak parallel machines if restricted properly. We will also correct someearlier results about pipelined parallel Turing machines.

Keywords

BSPcomplexity theorymodels of compuationparallel computingpipelining.
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Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 43 - 65
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© EDP Sciences, 2002

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