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Foil 27 The 8 NSF Point Designs

From Software Strategy for JNAC (PetaFlops) Initiative JNAC (PetaFlops) Presentation -- August 28,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


Relatively Conventional but still Innovative!
  • Andrew Chien et al. (Illinois) Reconfiguarable MORPH Architecture
  • Torrellas, Padua (Illinois) Aggressive Cache-Only Memory Architecture Multiprocessor (I-Acoma)
  • Ziavras et al. (NJIT, Wayne State) Optical Interconnect with Conventional Processors and Memory
  • Kumar and Sameh (Minnesota) Focus on Algorithms for Hybrid Systems (Clusters of clusters of deep memory hierarchies)
  • Fortes and Taylor(Purdue/Northwestern)Application focus on using Hierarchical Processors and Memory Architecture
Special Purpose Systems
  • McMillan, Hut et al. (Drexel, Princeton, Tokyo, Illinois) Special Purpose GRAPE System for N body Problems
Architecture Innovation (Perhaps Special Purpose)
  • Kogge et al. (Notre Dame) Processor in Memory (PIM) Technology Point Design
Radical Technology Innovation (Superconducting Processors)
  • Sterling et al. (Caltech, SUNY-SB,McGill) HTMT: Hybrid Technology Multi-Threaded Architecture



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