The architecture of the shared memory subsystem of the Minitaur II parallel computer system

The Minitaur-II parallel processor computer has been developed for real-time processing of audio signals. It consists of nine TMS 320C30 processors distributed over three 9U VME boards which are installed in a SUN workstation. The shared memory system of the Minitaur-II has a number of novel capabilities including the ability to create a segmented bus in real-time, initiate indivisible transfers of large data structures, broadcast data to multiple processors, and dynamically allocate data among the processors. The architectural capabilities of the Minitaur-II system have been duplicated in a set of SUN library functions, so that users may debug multiprocess programs on a single workstation, and then recompile and down-load them to the parallel processor.<
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