Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!Vaughan
From: pratt@cs.stanford.edu (Vaughan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: CM-2 SIMD question
Message-ID: <12553@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 9 Jan 91 21:15:16 GMT
Sender: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
Lines: 16
Approved: parallel@hubcap.clemson.edu


	I talked with Danny Hillis about this last year.  In his
	original plan, there were to be multiple instruction streams
	operating simultaneously.  Each processor would have a few bits
	telling it which instruction stream to process.  In the end
	they decided that most cases could be handled by a simple
	masking bit,

I'm all for fine-grain parallelism so long as each grain has a grain of
common sense---say around IQ 130 or so.

Grains this smart have a substantial volume today, but they'll get
finer.

Who will make this fine grain, said the little red hen.
-v