The Earth Simulator System
Please use the reference material indicated to answer the four questions
below. Email me your answers to these questions prior to our class
meeting on Monday, April 2.
- What architectural features of the Earth Simulator ensure a
highly performant and highly efficient computer system?
[The Earth Simulator System]
- Describe the crossbar-switch matrix used in the
processor interconnection schema.
[Textbook, page
692.]
- What are two levels of parallel programming paradigms
within a processor node?
[The Earth Simulator System]
- Briefly describe how to resolve the error occurrence
rate problem in the interconnection network.
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