The communication processor of TUMULT-64

Gerardus Johannes Maria Smit, P.G. Jansen

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    Abstract

    Tumult (Twente University MULTi-processor system) is a modular extendible multi-processor system designed and implemented at the Twente University of Technology in co-operation with Oce Nederland B.V. and the Dr. Neher Laboratories (Dutch PTT). Characteristics of the hardware are: MIMD type, distributed memory, message passing, high performance, real-time and fault tolerant. A distributed real-time operating system has been realized, consisting of a multi-tasking kernel per node, inter process communication via typed messages and a distributed file system. In this paper first a brief description of the system is given, after that the architecture of the communication processor will be discussed. Reduction of the communication overhead due to message passing will be emphasized.
    Original languageUndefined
    Pages (from-to)519-524
    JournalMicroprocessing and Microprogramming
    Volume24
    Issue number1-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1988

    Keywords

    • Performance
    • Distributed operating system
    • Real Time
    • message passing
    • Fault Tolerance
    • IR-70032

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