ADVANCED COMPUTER ORGANIZATION STUDY. VOLUME I. BASIC REPORT

Abstract

Advanced general-purpose computer organizations capable of parallel data processing were studied. The study resulted in the design of two computer organizations (designated Machine I and Machine II) capable of parallel data processing and fast sorting and table searching in memory. These machine organizations were possible because of the development of a special memory that permits many processing and input-output units to access memory simultaneously without conflict. The applications effort was focused on the development of solution models which exploited the maximum amount of parallelism resident within a problem. Two major problems were investigated: a dynamic programming problem, and parallel compilation. Detailed programs were written for the dynamic programming problem on Machine I and a parallel compilation algorithm on Machine II. These same problems also were programmed on the IBM 7090 to provide a standard of comparison. In both cases, the parallel processing capability of the machines afforded significant increases in speed of program execution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0631870

Entities

People

  • Donald L. Rohrbacher

Organizations

  • Goodyear Aerospace

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  • Energy and Power Technologies

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  • Abstracts
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Data Transmission
  • Diagrams
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Flow Charting
  • Information Processing
  • Machine Languages
  • Microarchitecture
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Parallel Processors
  • Programming Languages

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  • Computer science

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  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.