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Article #21128Re: Message queues
From: Richard A. Lethin
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 19:08
Date: Mon, 08 May 1989 19:08
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In article <279@celit.UUCP> hutch@celerity.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>Has anyone seen/heard of an architecture which aided kernel message passing by
>supplying hardware message queues for *fast* message queueing and dequeueing?
>/* Jim Hutchison {dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!celerity!hutch */
>/* Disclaimor: I am not an official spokesman for FPS computing */
@INPROCEEDINGS{DAL:JMA,
AUTHOR = {Dally, William J. and Chien, Andrew and Horwat, Waldemar
and Keen, John and Larivee, Michael and Lethin, Rich and
Nuth, Peter and Wills, Scott},
TITLE = {The J-Machine: A Fine-Grain Concurrent Computer},
BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of IFIP 89 Conference},
YEAR = {1989}
}
The "Jellybean machine" is an experimental system which has LOTS of
hardware to support message sends and dispatch on receipt. The point
of it is to reduce the cost of initiating processes in order to
support the execution of "fine-grained" concurrent methods.
--
-- Rich
lethin@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ai-lab!lethin From: lethin@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Richard A. Lethin) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Message queues Keywords: fine-grained concurrent Message-ID: <2277@cream-of-wheat.ai.mit.edu> Date: 8 May 89 19:08:12 GMT References: <279@celit.UUCP> Reply-To: lethin@cream-of-wheat.ai.mit.edu.WISC.EDU (Richard A. Lethin) Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 26