The Manchester prototype dataflow computer
Communications of the ACM - Special section on computer architecture
The connection machine
Multiprocessor cache synchronization: issues, innovations, evolution
ISCA '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Computer
Prolog multiprocessors
Architecture of a message-driven processor
ISCA '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Compiling Smalltalk-80 to a RISC
ASPLOS II Proceedings of the second international conference on Architectual support for programming languages and operating systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Architecture of the Symbolics 3600
ISCA '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
ISCA '85 Proceedings of the 12th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Distributed data structures in Linda
POPL '86 Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
The NYU Ultracomputer—designing a MIMD, shared-memory parallel machine (Extended Abstract)
ISCA '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
Implementation of tuple space machines
Implementation of tuple space machines
Matching Language and Hardware for Parallel Computation in the Linda Machine
IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Communications of the ACM
Multicast tree construction in bus-based networks
Communications of the ACM
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We describe the architecture of a coprocessor that supports the communication primitives of the Linda parallel programming environment in hardware. The coprocessor is a critical element in the architecture of the Linda Machine, an MIMD parallel processing system that is designed top down from the specifications of Linda. Communication in Linda programs takes place through a logically shared associative memory mechanism called tuple space. The Linda Machine, however, has no physically shared memory. The microprogrammable coprocessor implements distributed protocols for executing tuple space operations over the Linda Machine communication network. The coprocessor has been designed and is in the process of fabrication. We discuss the projected performance of the coprocessor and compare it with software Linda implementations.This work is supported in part by National Science Foundation grants CCR-8657615 and ONR N00014-86-K-0310.