A Taxonomy of Synchronous Parallel Machines

Abstract

A new classificational scheme is presented which is consistent with Flynn's taxonomy but is more expressive. The crucial idea is to recognize that a reference stream is composed of both values and addresses; their treatment exposes critical features of an architecture. This insight, together with the accompanying formal mechanism built on top of it, enables a large variety of recently developed (since Flynn's work) machines to be distinguished, including VLIW, multigauage, systolic arrays, and the Connection Machines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA204256

Entities

People

  • Lawrence H Snyder

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addressing
  • Air Force
  • Classification
  • Computations
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Inequalities
  • Information Systems
  • Instructions
  • Military Research
  • Recursive Functions
  • Sequences
  • Taxonomy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.