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Foil 56 The 8 NSF Point Designs

From Variety of Foils Used Starting January 97 General -- 1997. 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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