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Foil 34 Flynn's Classification of HPC Systems

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Very high speed computing systems,Proc of IEEE 54,12,p1901-1909(1966) and
2 Some Computer Organizations and their Effectiveness, IEEE Trans. on Comp. C-21,948-960(1972) -- both papers by M.J. Flynn
3 SISD -- Single Instruction stream, Single Data Stream -- i.e. von Neumann Architecture
4 MISD -- Multiple Instruction stream, Single Data Stream -- Not interesting
5 SIMD -- Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data Stream
6 MIMD -- Multiple Instruction stream and Multiple Data Stream -- dominant parallel system with ~one to ~one match of instruction and data streams.
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