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The problem of finding the minimum topology of multiprocessing substrates supporting parallel execution of any given neighbourhood-constrained system is proposed and possible optimal strategies are investigated based on the relationship between Barbosa's scheduling by edge reversal — SER — distributed algorithm and the minimum clique covering problem. It is shown that from any given clique covering of length λ on a graph G, it is possible to obtain a SER trailer dynamics in G's complement that cover G upon λ evolutions. It also shown that, conversely, from any given SER dynamics on G in which all of its nodes operate at least once upon λ steps, a clique covering of length at most λ is defined on G's complement. In addition, a conjecture correlating the length of any minimum clique covering and optimal concurrency in SER- driven systems is stablished.
This work was partially supported by CNPq, CAPES and FAPERJ, Brazilian research agencies.
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França, F.M.G., Faria, L. (1995). Optimal mapping of neighbourhood-constrained systems. In: Ferreira, A., Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems. IRREGULAR 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60321-2_14
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