In: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, 1989, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, pages 97-100. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1989.
Abstract: An augmented torus processing surface is proposed and operated as a message-passing MIMD machine. The augmented torus is obtained by drawing the torus as a mesh with end-around connections in each row and each column and then augmenting each row and column with a row bus and column bus, respectively. The performance of the augmented torus is modeled using the generalized stochastic Petri nets. The augmented torus has better processing power than the torus and the grid-bus architecture.
Keywords: MIMD; torus processing surface; row bus; column bus; grid bus; performance; GSPN.