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Record Nr.

UNISA996466148003316

Autore

Robbins Kay A

Titolo

The Cray X-MP/Model 24 [[electronic resource] ] : A Case Study in Pipelined Architecture and Vector Processing / / by Kay A. Robbins, Steven Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989

ISBN

0-387-34787-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 1989.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 172 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 374

Disciplina

004.1/1

Soggetti

Architecture, Computer

Microprocessors

Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Operating systems (Computers)

Arithmetic and logic units, Computer

Computer System Implementation

Processor Architectures

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters

Operating Systems

Arithmetic and Logic Structures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Overview of the Cray X-MP/Model 24 -- The control section -- The scalar section -- The address section -- Vectors and vector operations -- Memory access -- Interprocessor communication and multitasking.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the issues relevant to the design of vector and pipelined computer systems using the Cray X-MP/24. The purpose of the book is to help the readers arrive at a deep understanding of how vector processing systems really work. These insights will be useful to the scientist who would like to obtain maximum performance from a vector machine, to the computer science student, and to the compiler writer. The book can also be used to supplement a regular textbook in a graduate or senior level course in computer architecture. The book looks at the overall design of the Cray X-MP and then explores the



operation of the machine by looking at detailed timings of various instructions and code segments. It examines such issues as instruction issues and buffering, handling of jump instructions, use of registers to hold intermediate results, memory conflicts resulting from vectorization, optimal vectorization of multiple statement loops, and synchronization problems with multi-tasking. Detailed Gantt charts are provided to guide the reader through the timing issues.