Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1992-02-03
1993-12-28
Kriess, Kevin A.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
395650, 3642804, 364228, 3642319, G06F 900
Patent
active
052748189
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a parallel vector machine model for building a compiler that exploits three different levels of parallelism found in a variety of parallel processing machines, and in particular, the Connection Machine.RTM. Computer CM-2 system. The fundamental idea behind the parallel vector machine model is to have a target machine that has a collection of thousands of vector processors each with its own interface to memory. Thus allowing a fine-grained array-based source program to be mapped onto a course-grained hardware made up of the vector processors. In the parallel vector machine model used by CM Fortran 1.0, the FPUs, their registers, and the memory hiearchy are directly exposed to the compiler. Thus, the CM-2 target machine is not 64K simple bit-serial processors. Rather, the target is a machine containing 2K PEs (processing elements), where each PE is both superpipelined and superscalar. The compiler uses data distribution to spread the problem out among the 2K processors. A new compiler phase is used to separate the code that runs on the two types of processors in the CM-2; the parallel PEs, which execute a new RISC-like instruction set called PEAC, and the scalar front end processor, which executes SPARC or VAX assembler code. The pipelines in PEs are filled by using vector processing techniques along the PEAC instruction set. A scheduler overlaps the execution of a number of RISC operations.
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Lasser Clifford A.
Sabot Gary W.
Seamonson Linda J.
Tennies Lisa A.
Vasilevsky Alexander D.
Kriess Kevin A.
Spivak Kevin
Thinking Machines Corporation
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