Ultracomputer
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ultracomputer-282-6019277
title:
Ultracomputer
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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. The machine was developed in the 1980s at the Courant Institute of Ma
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American processor design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracomputer
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2023-02-16T19:25:56Z
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