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This work presents some considerations on the hardware organization of the external memory in low-cost massively parallel systems and discusses a few basic criteria for the development of efficient algorithms. These criteria are illustrated with the help of a case study.
This work was partially supported by CNR Progetto Finalizzato Trasporti under contracts 93.01813.PF74, 93.04759.ST74 and 94.01371.PF74.
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Broggi, A. (1995). Data packing vs processing speed on low-cost massively parallel systems: A case study. In: Braccini, C., DeFloriani, L., Vernazza, G. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60298-4_245
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