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Algorithm-structured computer arrays and networks : architectures and processes for images, percepts, models, information /
Algorithm-Structured Computer Arrays and Networks.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Academic Press,
1984.
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| Colección: | Computer science and applied mathematics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Algorithm-Structured Computer Arrays and Networks: Architectures and Processes for Images, Percepts, Models, Information; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS; Introduction: Toward Algorithm-Structured Architectures; Arrays and Networks of Large Numbers of Closely Coupled Computers; Toward Architectures That Mirror Algorithms' Information Flow; The Traditional Single 4 'Central Processing Unit"" Serial Computer; Problems for Which the One-CPU Serial Computer Is Inadequate
- Toward Developing Powerfully Structured Arrays and NetworksVery Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) and Very Large Networks; Steps toward Efficient, Powerful Algorithm-Structured Architectures; Chapter 1. Conventional Computers and Loosely Distributed Networks; General-Purpose Computers and Turing Machines; The General-Purpose Single-Processor Serial Computer Described; How Computers Actually Work; Graphs, Automata, Petri Nets, Information Flow, Network Flow; Parallel Hardware Additions for Super (Traditional) Computers; Networks of Loosely Coupled Distributed Computers; Summary Discussion
- PART II: ARRAYS AND NETWORKS BUILT OR DESIGNEDChapter 2. First Attempts at Designing and Organizing Multicomputers; Mapping Process-Information Graph into Processor-Memory Network Flow; A Survey of Early (Pre-LSI) Multicomputer Arrays and Networks; Associative, Content-Addressable Memories (CAMs) and Logic-in-Memory; Super Multicomputers; Organizing Computers: Clocks, Controllers, Operating Systems; The Overall Coordination and Operation of a Multicomputer Network; Summary Discussion; Chapter 3. Large and Powerful Arrays and Pipelines
- The General Architecture of Parallel Cellular Array ComputersThe Very Large LSI Parallel-Array Computer; An Examination of Today's Very Large Arrays; Pipelines of Processors; Systems That Combine Array, Pipeline, and Specialized Hardware; Summary Discussion: Arrays, Pipelines, Parallelism, VLSI; Chapter 4. More or Less Tightly Coupled Networks; Simple Structures: Buses, Rings, and Cross-Point Switches; Lattices, TV-Cubes, Trees, and Stars; Augmenting Trees for Density, Connectivity, and Structure; Miscellaneous Interconnection Patterns; Reconfiguring Network Topologies and Component Parts
- Network-Structured Programs and AlgorithmsSummary Discussion and Preliminary Comparisons; Chapter 5. Parallel Parallel Computers; The Great Variety of Possible Array, Pipeline, and Network Structures; The Value of a Parallel Set of Parallel Resources; Suggested Requirements for Parallel Parallel Systems; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 6. Converging Pyramids of Arrays; A Pipeline of Converging Stacked Arrays; An Example of a Potentially Powerful yet Economical Pyramid; A Combined Array/Network Architecture; Possible Mixtures of N-Bit Processors; Summary Discussion