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Masahiro SANO Shintaro SHIMOGORI Fumiyasu HIROSE
This paper presents a new approach of data pipelining for mincut partitioning acceleration using a parallel computer. When using a parallel computer, it is important to have many processors always active, also the quality of the partitioning must not be sacrificed. Out approach covers both speed and quality. We choose the hardware CAD accelerator TP5000 to implement our approach, which consists of dedicated Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors with high-speed interconnections. The TP5000 allows its connections to be reconfigured to optimize the data pipelines. We estimate that the speed of our approach using 10 processors on the TP5000 is 30 times faster than a SPARCStation-10.