Systolic Computations / Edition 1

by M.A. Frumkin

Overview

This monograph is devoted to a new method of parallel computing which uses VLSI technology in an effcient manner. By this method, data are fed to the cells of a systolic processor and results are obtained instantly.
Some theoretical and algorithmic questions which arise in the design of hardware and software for systolic processing are considered. Special attention is devoted to the complexity of VLSI, complexity of algorithms, parallel algorithms, relations between graphs of algorithms and graphs of processors, parallel programming languages, and the use of systolic algorithms for vector programming.
The book is unique for its inclusion of a library of systolic algorithms for solving problems from twelve branches of computer science, and will be useful for designers of hardware and software for parallel processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792317081
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	04/30/1992
Series:	Mathematics and its Applications , #83
Edition description:	1992
Pages:	319
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Ch. 1. VLSI models.- 1. Short history of the parallel processing.- 2. Physical opportunities and limits of VLSI.- 3. Algorithms for VLSI.- Ch. 2. The complexity of VLSI computations.- 1. VLSI complexity and complexity of algorithms.- 2. Grid model of VLSI design.- 3. Complexity of parallel computations.- Ch. 3. Systolic algorithms and systolic processors.- 1. Systolic processing.- 2. Mapping systolic algorithms on systolic processors.- 3. Graphs of systolic processors.- 4. Iterations of systolic processors.- Ch. 4. The systolic programming 225.- 1. Systolic processors and supercomputers.- 2. Parallel programming languages 245.- 3. Systolic programming in UNIX environment.- Appendix 1. Library of systolic algorithms.- Appendix 2. The grammar of the SPL.- References.