標題: MULTIGAUGE COMPUTERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
作者: YANG, C
管理科學系
Department of Management Science
關鍵字: MULTIGAUGE COMPUTERS;MULTIGAUGE PROCESSING;QUARTER HORSE MICROPROCESSOR
公開日期: 1-Jan-1993
摘要: A multigauge computer can have its data path split into independent data paths which execute operations on 'small' data concurrently. In this paper we explain how certain forms of multigauge processing can be implemented with little cost in hardware; we illustrate this 'low cost' implementation by describing the multigauging of the Quarter Horse microprocessor. and report on two practical applications from graphics for which 95% of the theoretically possible speedup is achieved. The measurements are based on the simulation of compiled code of the graphic applications. When instruction time is considered, the improvement is even more substantial: the super-linear is possible. We conclude that because multigauging can be used with other architectural structures, it is an effective way of exploiting parallelism.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/3183
ISSN: 0267-6192
期刊: COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
起始頁: 33
結束頁: 39
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