B-HIVE: hardware and software for an experimental multiprocessor

B-HIVE, a 24-node experimental multiprocessor computer, is based on a generalized hypercube interconnection structure and features two processors at each node: one to perform application processing and the other to handle communication. The design of the B-HIVE hardware and software is intended to keep run-time overhead to a minimum, and thus provide high performance on a variety of problems, especially signal and image processing. Topics addressed include the B-HIVE multicomputer architecture and node structure, interprocessor communication, software support, and project status.<
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