eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (09/06/84)
[] NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION AMES RESEARCH CENTER Moffett Field, California 94035 Computational Research and Technology Branch The Manchester Dataflow Project Adrian Parker University of Manchester A team at the University of Manchester in England has, for the past 8 years, been designing and building a Dataflow Computer. The aim of the project has been to build a machine capable of fully exploiting all the available parallelism in an application without any special effort on the part of its programmers. In describing this work and the results obtained thus far, the presentation will outline the design of the Manchester architecture starting from a basis of simple dataflow ideas. The current performance of the machine will be highlighted, together with a discussion of code generation for the single-assignment language SISAL. Finally some possible enhancements to the architecture and some remaining unresolved problems will be outlined. Tuesday, September 11, 1984 1030 AM \(em 1130 AM Building 200, 213 (Committee Room) Foreign Nationals should obtain prior approval to attend. Please mail request to: emiya@ames-vmsb.ARPA.