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From: aras@ecerl1.ece.ncsu.edu (Caglan Aras)
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Subject: Re: Realtime Parallel Systems
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Date: 28 Dec 90 19:33:57 GMT
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In article <12413@hubcap.clemson.edu> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>Has anyone out there done any research regarding massively parallel systems
>for realtime control applications?  The restrictions placed by realtime
>operation require extensive interrupt handling, and I am not sure how this
>could be handled easily, because more than just the processor handling I/O
>will need to be interrupted.  Since deterministic timing is a crucial thing,
>would it even be a good idea to avoid message passing systems altogether?

I would suggest looking at the Real-Time Systems Symposium as a start,
they usually have a few papers on architectures. Some robotics or
avionics conferences also have articles on such systems.

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