Vector Processors

Contents

• The Cray-1
  • Functional units in the Cray-1
  • Instruction Issue
  • Chaining
  • Performance
• The Cray X-MP
  • Central memory organisation
  • Comparison with the Cray-1
  • Chaining
  • Interprocessor communication
  • The Cray Y-MP
• The Cray-2
  • Background Processor architecture
  • Interprocessor communication
  • Cray technology
  • Beyond the Cray-2
• The CDC Cyber 205
  • The CDC STAR-100
  • Operand Alignment in the STAR-100
  • The CDC Cyber 205
  • The scalar processor
  • Virtual address translation
  • The vector processor
  • The vector floating-point pipeline
  • Sparse vector operations
  • Indexed list operations
  • Performance