A Survey of Some Theoretical Aspects of Multiprocessing
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Shared Resource Multiprocessing
Computer
Parallel operation in the control data 6600
AFIPS '64 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the October 27-29, 1964, fall joint computer conference, part II: very high speed computer systems
AFIPS '69 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference
The TI ASC: a highly modular and flexible super computer architecture
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part I) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part I
Distributed intelligence for user-oriented computing
AFIPS '72 (Fall, part II) Proceedings of the December 5-7, 1972, fall joint computer conference, part II
Pipelining: the generalized concept and sequencing strategies
AFIPS '74 Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
Pipelining: the generalized concept and sequencing strategies
AFIPS '74 Proceedings of the May 6-10, 1974, national computer conference and exposition
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A common architecture of most of today's super machines revolves around parallel or pipeline processing. Typical examples of such machines are the CDC STAR-100, TI-ASC, PEPE, IBM 360/91, 360/195, and CDC 6600, 7600, etc. They all have distinct pipeline processing capabilities, either in the form of internally pipelined arithmetic functional units or in the form of a pipeline of special purpose functional units. The principal idea behind pipelining is to create as much overlap as possible in the operations of the different facilities, for example, memory fetch unit, decoding units, adders, and multipliers. Concurrency of different operations increases the system utilization. As an important consequence of concurrency, the execution speed of most jobs are accelerated considerably as is evidenced in systems like 360/195 and TI-ASC. Ideally, in a pipelined machine, instead of obtaining one output per major cycle from the system, a rate of one output per minor cycle may be achievable. A typical linear pipeline is as drawn in Figure 1(a).