Concepts of the System/370 vector architecture

Authors:
B. Moore;A. Padegs;R. Smith;W. Buchholz
Affiliations:
Data Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY;Data Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY;Data Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY;Data Systems Division, IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY
Venue:
ISCA '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Year:
1987

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Abstract

This paper discusses the performance, complexity and system-integration considerations that shaped the System/370 Vector Architecture [1, 9]. The architecture is intended for compatible systems providing a range of price and performance. The paper reviews the reasons for choosing a register-oriented architecture with compound instructions over storage-to-storage operations and vector-instruction chaining. Then it discusses the role of cache in stride-N storage accessing, and describes some new facilities introduced for control-program purposes.