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American processor design
The New York University's Ultracomputer is a significant processor design in the history of parallel computing. The system has N processors, N memories, and an N log N message-passing switch connecting them. The system supported an innovative fetch-and-add process coordination instruction, and the custom VLSI network switches could combine references from several processors into a single reference, to reduce memory contention. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: UltracomputerA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Random number generators for ultracomputersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The NYU Ultracomputer—Designing an MIMD Shared Memory Parallel ComputerCited 484 times
- Go sideways: Single program, multiple dataA closely related topic
- Go sideways: IBM ROMPA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The NYU Ultracomputer—Designing an MIMD Shared Memory Parallel Computer
A parallel scan conversion algorithm with anti-aliasing for a general-purpose ultracomputer
The NYU Ultracomputer—designing a MIMD, shared-memory parallel machine (Extended Abstract)
Highly parallel Ada—Ada on an ultracomputer
The ultracomputer as a vehicle for polymer simulations
đź“š Books worth reading
Random number generators for ultracomputersO. E. Percus, Malvin H. Kalos · 1987
The NYU ultracomputerMalvin H. Kalos · 1983
Wireability of an ultracomputerRonald Bianchini · 1982
Monte Carlo transport calculations on an ultracomputerY. Q. Zhong · 1983
Bitonic sort on ultracomputersLambert Meertens · 1979
Ultracomputer packaging and prototypesRonald Bianchini · 1989
Observations concerning multidimensional ultracomputersClyde Kruskal · 1980
Wireability of an ultracomputerRonald Bianchini · 1982
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