Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: kkoppolu@chezhelen.cs.uno.edu (koppolu)
Subject: Clarification needed for T800 transputer and OCCAM
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 16:38:00 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Apr7.163800.23391@cs.uno.edu>


I need to find out a suitable OCCAM2 construct to pass data simultaneously  
in both directions across a bidirectional link between a pair of  
transputers.  I came across the following statement from the text book  
"Parallel Programs for the transputer"  by Ronald S Cok.  

I quote from the text:

" The transputer links are bidirectional and can pass data both into and  
out of the processors to which they are connected.  Although the link  
bandwidth in either direction is the same, when the links are used to  
simultaneously
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
pass data in both directions the overall throughput is not twice the  
throughput possible when data is passed in one direction. "  

I would highly appreciate responses from people who are aware of this.   

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Kavitha
(email: kkoppolu@cs.uno.edu
or
kmkee@jazz.uno.edu)

