Properties of the CTA ...
•Processor Elements are von Neumann machines -- they
could be SMPs or other parallel designs, but they execute vN ISA
•PEs
are connected by a sparse (O(n) edges) point-to-point network, not specified
•PE’s
connection to network is “narrow”
•Latency
l >> 1 for non-local
memory reference
•Controller
has “thin” broadcast connection to all processors
The distributed memory model of
last week