Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!littlei!intelhf!ichips!ichips!colwell From: colwell@pdx023.pdx023 (Robert Colwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.super Subject: Re: VLIW machines? Message-ID: Date: 24 May 91 08:09:02 GMT References: <1991May23.144817.23820@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account) Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: kuszewsk@euler.biology.yale.edu's message of 23 May 91 14:48:17 GMT In article <1991May23.144817.23820@cs.yale.edu> kuszewsk@euler.biology.yale.edu (John Kuszewski) writes: Does anyone know if anyone is working on bringing a VLIW machine to market? Multiflow had a great technology. Aslo, can anyone give me some solid background references on VLIW architecture (esp. the memory architecture)? All the arch. books I've seen make no mention of VLIW. John, 1) no comment on anyone bringing a VLIW to market (Alliant's isn't) 2) thanks for the MFCI plug, it was a great technology and it deserved more user time than it got 3) we wrote two arch papers while there, the first in IEEE Transactions on Computers, Aug. 1988, the second in 1990's Supercomputing Conf., and Chandra Joshi wrote a paper on the memory system arch that will appear in this year's Parallel Processing Conf. in Chicago. 4) Actually the newer arch books. like Patterson/Hennessy do have a section on VLIWs. Bob Colwell colwell@ichips.intel.com 503-696-4550 Intel Corp. JF1-19 5200 NE Elam Young Parkway Hillsboro, Oregon 97124