The Manchester prototype dataflow computer

  • Authors:
  • J. R Gurd;C. C Kirkham;I. Watson

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK;Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK;Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - Special section on computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

The Manchester project has developed a powerful dataflow processor based on dynamic tagging. This processor is large enough to tackle realistic applications and exhibits impressive speedup for programs with sufficient parallelism.