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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: NASA Ames Research Center Seminar
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 12:27:39 EST
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Joint RIACS and ECT Branch Seminar

SPEAKER: Vason Srini
         Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

TOPIC: A Message-Based Processor for Data Flow

ABSTRACT: The architecture of a message-based processor for a dataflow
system is described.  The primary objective in developing the architecture
is to determine the overhead in executing dataflow graphs and the various
tradeoffs related to the overhead.  Nine classes of instructions have been
identified for the message-based processor to support the execution of
program graphs.  These instructions support message communication, string
operations, floating point operations, fixed point operations, and
manipulate structures such as tables and streams of data. To reduce the
execution overhead in the dataflow system, several features are included in
the processor.  There is a data memory (table memory) in the processor to do
string operations on a vector of data.

DATE: 5 Feb 1985    TIME: 10 AM       BLDG: 233       ROOM: 172

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Excuse the late posting, I have been at a meeting.