Constant time algorithms for computing the contour of maximal elements on the reconfigurable mesh

174. M. Manzur Murshed and R. P. Brent, Constant time algorithms for computing the contour of maximal elements on the reconfigurable mesh, Parallel Processing Letters 8 (1998), 351-361.
A shorter version appeared in Proc. ICPADS'97, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 1997, 172-177.
Preliminary version available as Technical Report TR-CS-97-09, Computer Sciences Laboratory, ANU, May 1997, 9 pp.

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Abstract

There has recently been an interest in the introduction of reconfigurable buses to existing parallel architectures. Among them the Reconfigurable Mesh (RM) draws much attention because of its simplicity. This paper presents three constant time algorithms to compute the contour of the maximal elements of N planar points on the RM. The first algorithm employs an RM of size N x N while the second one uses a 3-D RM of size N1/2 x  N1/2 x  N1/2.

We generalise the result to a k-D RM of size N1/(k-1) x  N1/(k-1) x ... x  N1/(k-1).

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