Title :
The Monarch parallel processor hardware design
Author :
Rettberg, Randall D. ; Crowther, William R. ; Carvey, Philip P. ; Tomlinson, Raymond S.
Author_Institution :
BBN Syst. & Technol. Corp., Cambridge, MA, USA
fDate :
4/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Monarch architecture team took advantage of custom VLSI in the design of a shared-memory parallel processor. The simple structure eases the task of programming a massively parallel machine.<>
Keywords :
VLSI; parallel architectures; parallel machines; Monarch architecture; Monarch parallel processor; custom VLSI; hardware design; massively parallel machine; programming; shared-memory parallel processor; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Delay; Hardware; Microcomputers; Parallel machines; Process design; Switches; Very large scale integration;