Exploiting parallelism for the performance enhancement of non-numeric applications

  • Authors:
  • David J. Dewitt;Dina Friedland

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin;University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the design of computer architectures that use parallelism to enhance the performance of non-numeric applications. In particular we examine how the technology of mass-storage devices has affected the design of computer architectures for non-numeric processing.