Title :
Toward advanced parallel processing: exploiting parallelism at task and instruction levels
Author :
Fukuda, Akira ; Murakami, Kazuaki ; Tomita, Shinji
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Syst., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
The status of two projects that entail the development of a reconfigurable parallel processor system with 128 Sparc microprocessors and a superscalar processor with four operations proceeding in parallel is discussed. The design principles, system configuration, processing element, network architecture, and memory architecture of the reconfigurable processors (called KRPP) are described. The operating system for KRPP is discussed. The architecture for the superscalar (called a dynamically hazard-resolved, statically code-scheduled, nonuniform superscalar) is presented.<>
Keywords :
parallel architectures; parallel machines; KRPP; Sparc microprocessors; dynamically hazard-resolved; instruction levels; memory architecture; network architecture; nonuniform superscalar; operating system; parallel processing; parallelism; processing element; reconfigurable parallel processor system; statically code-scheduled; superscalar processor; system configuration; task levels; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Concurrent computing; Data structures; MIMO; Parallel processing; Process control; Process design; VLIW;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
