Design of a Massively Parallel Processor

  • Authors:
  • K. E. Batcher

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Technology Department, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

The massively parallel processor (MPP) system is designed to process satellite imagery at high rates. A large number (16 384) of processing elements (PE's) are configured in a square array. For optimum performance on operands of arbitrary length, processing is performed in a bit-serial manner. On 8-bit integer data, addition can occur at 6553 million operations per second (MOPS) and multiplication at 1861 MOPS. On 32-bit floating-point data, addition can occur at 430 MOPS and multiplication at 216 MOPS.