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From: lethin@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Richard A. Lethin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Message queues
Keywords: fine-grained concurrent
Message-ID: <2277@cream-of-wheat.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 19:08:12 GMT
References: <279@celit.UUCP>
Reply-To: lethin@cream-of-wheat.ai.mit.edu.WISC.EDU (Richard A. Lethin)
Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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In article <279@celit.UUCP> hutch@celerity.UUCP (Jim Hutchison) writes:
>Has anyone seen/heard of an architecture which aided kernel message passing by
>supplying hardware message queues for *fast* message queueing and dequeueing?
>/*    Jim Hutchison   		{dcdwest,ucbvax}!ucsd!celerity!hutch  */
>/*    Disclaimor:  I am not an official spokesman for FPS computing   */



@INPROCEEDINGS{DAL:JMA,
	AUTHOR = {Dally, William J. and Chien, Andrew and Horwat, Waldemar
                  and Keen, John and Larivee, Michael and Lethin, Rich and
                  Nuth, Peter and Wills, Scott},
	TITLE = {The J-Machine: A Fine-Grain Concurrent Computer},
	BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of IFIP 89 Conference},
	YEAR = {1989}
}


The "Jellybean machine" is an experimental system which has LOTS of
hardware to support message sends and dispatch on receipt. The point
of it is to reduce the cost of initiating processes in order to
support the execution of "fine-grained" concurrent methods.
-- 
-- Rich

lethin@wheaties.ai.mit.edu