T. Kalinowski et al., MULTITRANSPUTER SYSTEMS WITH DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION CONTROL-BASED ONTHE SERIAL BUS, Computing systems in engineering, 6(4-5), 1995, pp. 391-400
The paper presents new architectures of dynamically reconfigurable mul
ti-transputer systems based on first generation transputers. Transpute
r link connections in the proposed systems are organized in crossbar s
witches on demand in the application program at run-time. Link connect
ion reconfiguration control is based on transmission of control messag
es through the serial bus compatible with the transputer link protocol
. The bus is built using the TRANSBUS controller proposed and designed
by IRESTE University of Nantes.(1) Two dynamically reconfigurable mul
ti-transputer architectures are discussed. The first one, called GARTS
, is based on nine-worker transputer clusters with unrestricted dynami
c link connectivity. Inter-cluster connections are also dynamically or
ganized. The second architecture, called HP-MODTRANS, is based on thre
e-transputer fully connected clusters with dynamically organized inter
-cluster link connections. The structures and functional properties of
both architectures are discussed. Then, analytical model for reconfig
uration control communication overheads and some performance figures o
btained using these models are presented for the discussed architectur
es.