TY - GEN
T1 - ARCHITECTURAL SUPPORT FOR INTERPROCESSOR COMMUNICATION IN POINT-TO-POINT MULTIPROCESSOR NETWORKS.
AU - Midkiff, Scott F.
AU - Carroll, Christopher R.
PY - 1987/1/1
Y1 - 1987/1/1
N2 - Architectural support for interprocessor communication in point-to-point multiprocessing networks is examined, and an architecture for a special-purpose processor is proposed. Called the communications processor, it integrates specialized hardware structures for data transfer and routing, a general-purpose arithmetic unit, and a flexible microprogrammable control structure to efficiently process and transfer messages between nodes. The discussion covers the separation of the communication and computation tasks, the architecture, special hardware, and performance advantages.
AB - Architectural support for interprocessor communication in point-to-point multiprocessing networks is examined, and an architecture for a special-purpose processor is proposed. Called the communications processor, it integrates specialized hardware structures for data transfer and routing, a general-purpose arithmetic unit, and a flexible microprogrammable control structure to efficiently process and transfer messages between nodes. The discussion covers the separation of the communication and computation tasks, the architecture, special hardware, and performance advantages.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0023208014
SN - 0818607653
T3 - Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference
SP - 14
EP - 17
BT - Conference Proceedings - Annual Phoenix Conference
PB - IEEE
ER -