Evaluating the VLIW-in-the-large

Some time ago, we proposed a new computing model, called VLIW-in-the-large, allowing both coarse grain and fine grain parallelism to be exploited in the execution of programs onto the coMP architecture. coMP is an MIMD machine explicitly designed to allow fast inter-processor communications to be performed. These kind of fast, possibly synchronous, inter-processor communications are essential to the realization of the VLIW-in-the-large computing model. In this paper, we present some experimental results that validate both the computing model and the design choices relative to the coMP, massively parallel computing architecture.