Overview of the Monsoon project

Author

Traub, Kenneth R. ; Beckerle, Michael J. ; Papadopoulos, Gregory M. ; Hicks, James E. ; Young, Jonathan

fYear

1991

fDate

14-16 Oct 1991

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

155

Abstract

Monsoon is an experimental multi-threaded multiprocessor targeted to large-scale, general purpose scientific and symbolic computations. In particular, Monsoon is designed for the efficient execution of code compiled from Id, a high-level, implicitly parallel declarative language. Monsoon is a product of a multiyear cooperative research and development program between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Motorola, Inc., which, in turn is an outgrowth of over ten years of research in dynamic dataflow architectures and languages conducted at MIT. The intent is to provide an overall view of the Monsoon hardware and software system architecture. In addition, the run-time system and emulator are detailed

Keywords

parallel architectures; parallel languages; parallel machines; parallel programming; Id; MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Monsoon project; Motorola; dynamic dataflow architectures; emulator; multi-threaded multiprocessor; parallel declarative language; research and development program; run-time system; scientific computations; symbolic computations; Computer architecture; Hardware; Large-scale systems; Packet switching; Pipelines; Registers; Runtime; Software systems; Switches; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 1991. ICCD '91. Proceedings, 1991 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2270-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCD.1991.139869

Filename

139869