Re: Connection Machine (was: Re: New Bell Award)

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From: James Salsman
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 09:49

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In article <2238@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_atge@jhunix.UUCP (Thomas G Edwards) writes:

> And just because every processor gets the same instruction feed, one must not
> think that every processor is "doing the same thing." Each CM processor
> can hold an index to an array located in that processor,

Only on the CM-2.  Also, don't forget the condition sense
flag lines of the nanoinstruction stream.

> so with the right software, the CM could become a MIMD machine.  

Please do not attempt this.  I have tried for months to
optimize a MIMD-emulator on the CM-2 with very disappointing
results.  It might be a fun class project for a bunch of
novice hackers learning parallelism.

:James

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-- 

:James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)

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Subject: Re: Connection Machine (was: Re: New Bell Award)
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