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Signal processing aspects of the S-1 multiprocessor project

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OSTI ID:5236117

The S-1 family of uni- and multiprocessors is an extremely-high-performance but relatively inexpensive general-purpose set of digital processing systems being developed for the most demanding National security applications. A typical S-1 system consists of from one to sixteen S-1 uniprocessors sharing up to 4 gigawords of uniformly addressed main memory. Each uniprocessor of the current (Mark IIA) generation has computational power roughy equivalent to that of a CRAY-1. This paper gives a general description of the S-1 Mark IIA uniprocessor and a somewhat more extensive discussion of its signal processing hardware and hardware-executed algorithms. The focus is a discussion of the felicitous properties of the uniprocessor components that make the S-1 system a powerful general-purpose digital signal processor. 3 figures, 3 tables.

Research Organization:
California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
5236117
Report Number(s):
UCRL-84658; CONF-800719-7
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English