PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEM USING A SIMD METHOD.

摘要

A parallel computer system using a SIMD method, which in one aspect is constituted by a controller (10) and a plurality of processor elements (14), each of the processor elements has a storage unit to store data to be processed, the controller controls operation of the processor elements, and the parallel computer system performs processing of the data based on a calculation control signal transmitted from the controller (10). The parallel computer system further comprises: a data collection unit (13) connected between the processor elements and the controller (10) for receiving output data from the processor elements (14), performing a predetermined calculation, and outputting calculated data to the controller; and a calculation control unit (15) connected between the data collection unit (13) and the controller (10) for transmitting the calculation control signal from the controller to the data collection unit (13) to make it possible to perform the predetermined calculation in the data collection circuit. In another aspect (Fig. 10), the parallel computer system comprises: a controller (10), a plurality of control groups (G1...G4), each of the control groups being constituted by a number of processor elements divided from a plurality of the processor elements (14), for use as an address control unit; a plurality of scheduling circuits (110), each of the scheduling circuits provided for one of the control groups (G1...G4) and operatively connected to the controller (10), and for receiving and managing an event signal designating an address signal for data to be processed and transmitted from an adjacent control group; and a plurality of real address generation circuits (120), each of the real address generation circuits provided for one of the control groups (G1...G4) and connected between the controller (10), the scheduling circuit (110), and the control group, for generating an address signal for data to be processed by the processor element (14) belonging to the control group based on a base address determined by the event signal to be managed by the scheduling circuit (110), and an address signal applied from the controller (10).