A program data flow analysis procedure
Communications of the ACM
Micromodules: Microprogrammable building blocks for hardware development
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
Computer Modules: An architecture for large digital modules
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
ICSE '76 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Software engineering
The distributed pipeline.
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part II
Pluribus: a reliable multiprocessor
AFIPS '75 Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition
A Scheme for Synchronizing High-Speed Logic: Part I
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Performance enhancement of SISD processors
ISCA '79 Proceedings of the 6th annual symposium on Computer architecture
An Alternative to the Distributed Pipeline
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Due to the crossbar organization of typical multiprocessors, their cost grows as the square of the number of processors. The distributed pipeline (DP) is a concept which allows the construction and operation of very large multiprocessors; an example having 300 CPU's is described. The DP is an extension of the more traditional pipeline which has been used to implement highly concurrent computers. The DP allows increased concurrency, throughput determined by the average processing time, and the ability to operate at reduced size when one of the elements fails. Each element in a DP can implement a range of functions with little concern for speed matching between elements. The DP is therefore somewhat more general in application than the traditional pipeline, and has certain characteristics which are highly desirable in multiprocessors, e. g., potential for fault tolerance and simple throughput prediction.