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Machine organization of the IBM RISC System/6000 processor

Journal Article · · IBM Journal of Research and Development (International Business Machines); (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1147/rd.341.0037· OSTI ID:6764506
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  1. IBM Advanced Workstations Div., Austin, TX (US)

The IBM RISC System/6000 processor is a second-generation RISC processor which reduces the execution pipeline penalties caused by branch instructions and also provides high floating-point performance. It employs multiple functional units which operate concurrently to maximize the instruction execution rate. By employing these advanced machine-organization techniques, it can execute up to four instructions simultaneously. Approximately 11 MFLOPS are achieved on the LINPACK benchmarks.

OSTI ID:
6764506
Journal Information:
IBM Journal of Research and Development (International Business Machines); (USA), Journal Name: IBM Journal of Research and Development (International Business Machines); (USA) Vol. 34:1; ISSN IBMJA; ISSN 0018-8646
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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