IJRIM Volume 1, Issue 1 (May, 2011) ISSN 2231-4334 International Journal of Research in IT & Management http://www.mairec org  A STUDY OF COMPARISON OF TWO PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES FOR MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Dr. Girish Kumar* Ankit Kumar** ABSTRACT In this paper, efforts are made to study the parallel architectures and the topology associated with parallel architectures. Further a parametric study is conducted for solving the matrix multiplication problem by using two different parallel architectures and it has been observed that matrix size and behavior is dependent on the complexity of the architecture being used for carrying the multiplication. Keywords: PRAM Model, Scalable, Speed Up, Network Topologies, Hypercube, 2-D MESH * Associate.Prof., BPIBS, GNCT, Shakarpur,Delhi-110092 ** Asst. Prof. ,SIET, Gangoh, Saharanpur-247341