Static Program Assignment in Circuit Switched Multiprocessors

Abstract

Exploiting the performance of distributed memory multiprocessors necessitates efficient algorithms for assigning concurrently executable program tasks to processors the well known mapping problem. Faditionally, solutions to the mapping problem have been based on a model of inter-processor communication where communication cost increases linearly with distance, and it is this cost that is the principal determinant ofper$ormance. Therefore, most existing algorithms attempt to find assignments that minimize the graph theoretic distance between communicating processors. In circuit switched multiprocessors, it is typically circuit blocking and not the inter-processor communication latency that dominates. We propose the use of an adaptive variant of simulated annealing to search for an acceptable assignment. This algorithm is useful for determining assignments for multiprocessor architectures implementing both the circuit switched and store-and-forward model of inter-processor communication.