Building blocks for data flow prototypes
ISCA '80 Proceedings of the 7th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
The architecture and system method of DDM1: A recursively structured Data Driven Machine
ISCA '78 Proceedings of the 5th annual symposium on Computer architecture
VAL- ORIENTED ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE, PRELIMINARY REFERENCE MANUAL
VAL- ORIENTED ALGORITHMIC LANGUAGE, PRELIMINARY REFERENCE MANUAL
SAFETY AND OPTIMIZATION TRANSFORMATIONS FOR DATA FLOW PROGRAMS
SAFETY AND OPTIMIZATION TRANSFORMATIONS FOR DATA FLOW PROGRAMS
HIGH LEVEL VAL CONSTRUCTS IN A STATIC DATA FLOW MACHINE
HIGH LEVEL VAL CONSTRUCTS IN A STATIC DATA FLOW MACHINE
A Practical Data Flow Computer
Computer
Computer
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Data flow computers promise efficient parallel computation limited in speed only by data dependencies in the calculation being performed. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science, the Computation Structures Group is working to design practical data flow computers that can outperform conventional supercomputers. Since data flow computers differ radically in structure from conventional (sequential) computers, the projection of their performance must be done through analysis of specific computations. The performance improvement that data flow computers offer is shown for a NASA benchmark program that implements a global weather model. We present the structure of the weather code as expressed in VAL, a functional programming language designed by the Computation Structures Group, and develop the corresponding machine-level program structures for efficient execution on a data flow supercomputer. On the basis of this analysis, we specify the capacities of hardware units and the number of each type of unit required to achieve a twenty-fold improvement in performance for the weather simulation application.