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- From: lycmit@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw (Yin-Chih Lin)
- Subject: Asking any paper/textbook concerning instruction-set parallelism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.142825.27620@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu (Steve Stevenson)
- Organization: Clemson University
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 15:39:55 CST
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- Greetings:
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- I'm looking for any papers, documents or textbooks which are concerning
- about the insturction-set layer parallelism. As far as I know, there
- are many parallelisms can be pursued in the computing systems:
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- . algorithm layer
- . environment layer
- . language and compiler layer
- . OS and library layer
- . instruction-set layer
- . hardware layer
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- It's my impression that most of current parallel system implementations
- are mainly focused on hardware layer. I wonder whether instruction-set
- layer parallelism is worth to explore. Current CISC/RISC processors
- seem don't consider implementing any instructions which support the
- concurrent execution (except floating-point operations). Although
- some processors (such as Inmos's Transputer series) also include
- the inter-processor communication instructions, I doubt this is the
- only way to obtain the instrcution level parallelism.
-
- The vector processors are good enough for array operations but are
- criticized for most of the general-purpose programs are hard (if not
- impossible) to transform into vector forms. So you can find that
- additional vector processors are attached in TMC's CM-5 nodes.
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- MIT's dataflow machines seems be the only one computation model that can
- support instruction level parallelism. Other High-Level-Language (HLL)
- machines might be the another candidate, I'm not sure.
-
- Superpipeline and superscalar, however, are not my interesting.
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- Please forward your direction to me.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Yin-Chih Lin lycmit@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw
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