A computer architecture for the concurrent execution of sequential programs.

摘要

A computer system processes mixed control, indexing and data manipulation instructions in groups of N instructions at a time. A group of instructions is applied to a set of N Dispatch units which execute the control and indexing instructions directly. The Dispatch Units convert data manipulation instructions into a more primitive data flow operations. The data flow operations are applied to a set of M Execution Units which process the operations concurrently by observing data dependency constraints. The data used by the control and indexing instructions is stored in a group of identical memory structures which are accessible by each of the Dispatch Units. Data for the data manipulation instructions is stored in a data structure which is divided among the Execution Units.