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Foil 95 Flynn's Classification of HPC Systems

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Very high speed computing systems,Proc of IEEE 54,12,p1901-1909(1966) and
Some Computer Organizations and their Effectiveness, IEEE Trans. on Comp. C-21,948-960(1972) -- both papers by M.J. Flynn
SISD -- Single Instruction stream, Single Data Stream -- i.e. von Neumann Architecture
MISD -- Multiple Instruction stream, Single Data Stream -- Not interesting
SIMD -- Single Instruction stream, Multiple Data Stream
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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