Apparatus, system and method for distributed processing.

摘要

An active memory device 14 is provided which includes a data memory 20 including rows and columns of storage locations for holding broad data and computational results. A broadcast memory 22 is also provided which includes rows and columns of storage locations for holding control instructions and computational arguments. A data path operable to apply selected computational arguments received from broadcast memory 22 to selected words of raw data received from data memory 20 and provide computational results in response. Control circuitry 24 is operable in response to control instructions received from broadcast memory 22 to control the transfer of the selected words of raw data and results between the data memory 20 and the data path 26, the transfer of the selected arguments from the broadcast memory 22 to the data path 26, and the application of the selected arguments to the selected words of raw data by data path 26.