Supercomputer toolkit: A general framework for special purpose computing. Memorandum report

Technical Report · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6640666

Abelson, H; Berlin, A A; Katzenelson, J; McAllister, W H; Rozas, G J

The Toolkit is a family of hardware modules (processors, memory, interconnect, and input-output devices) and a collection of software modules (compilers, simulators, scientific libraries, and high-level front ends) from which high-performance special-purpose computers can be easily configured and programmed. The hardware modules are intended to be standard, reusable parts. These are combined by means of a user-reconfigurable, static interconnect technology. The Toolkit's software support, based on novel compilation techniques, produces extremely high-performance numerical code from high-level language input, and will eventually automatically configure hardware modules for particular applications.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Artificial Intelligence Lab.
• OSTI ID: 6640666
• Report Number(s): AD-A-259736/7/XAB; AI-M--1329; CNN: N00014-89-J-3202; NSF-MIP90-01651
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALGORITHMS
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ENGINEERING
EQUIPMENT INTERFACES
FUNCTIONAL MODELS
INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS
LIBRARIES
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NUMERICAL SOLUTION
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SIMULATORS
STANDARDS
SUPERCOMPUTERS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
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