Building and Using a Highly Parallel Programmable Logic Array

  • Authors:
  • Maya Gokhale;William Holmes;Andrew Kopser;Sara Lucas;Ronald Minnich;Douglas Sweely;Daniel Lopresti

  • Affiliations:
  • Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD;Brown Univ., Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • Computer - Special issue on experimental research in computer architecture
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

A two-slot addition called Splash, which enables a Sun workstation to outperform a Cray-2 on certain applications, is discussed. Following an overview of the Splash design and programming, hardware development is described. The development of the logic description generator is examined in detail. Splash's runtime environment is described, and an example application, that of sequence comparison, is given.