| 摘要 |
<p>The invention is based on the idea to effectively separate communication hardware, e.g. busses and memory, and computation hardware, e.g. processors, in a data processing system by introducing a communication means for each processor. By introducing this separation the processors can concentrate on performing their function-specific tasks, while the communication means provide the communication support for the respective processor. Therefore, a data processing system is provided with a computation, a communication support and a communication network layer. The computation layer comprises a first and at least a second processor for processing a stream of data objects. The first processor passes a number of data objects from a stream to the second processor which can then process the data objects. The communication network layer includes a memory and a communication network for linking the first processor and the second processors with said memory. The communication support layer is arranged between the computation layer and the communication network layer and comprises one communication means for each second processor in the computation layer. The communication means of each of the second processors controls the communication between the said second processor and the memory via the communication network in the communication network layer.</p> |
