Aladdin: a high performance, distributed memory multiprocessor

Author

Lum, M. ; Brandt, J. ; Vojta, M. ; Wehner, W. ; Belt, R.

Author_Institution

Res. & Technol. Center, Alliant Techsystems Inc., Hopkins, MN, USA

Volume

i

fYear

1992

fDate

7-10 Jan 1992

Firstpage

181

Abstract

Describes the design of the Aladdin architecture and the implementation of the prototype which Alliant Techsystems is under contract to deliver to DARPA and the Army´s CCNVEO. The primary goal of the Aladdin project is to design an architecture that has high throughput and is compact, programmable, modular, reconfigurable and scalable. The architecture must be suitable for automatic target recognition (ATR) and radar processing, get flexible enough to be reconfigured for applications such as avionics processing. The architecture is demonstrated in a soupcan-sized prototype that consists of 64 320C30´s with 92 MBytes of memory, and 16 Alliant Techsystems proprietary Parallel Recirculating Pipeline (PREP) chips supported by 512 KBytes of multiport memory. It has a throughput of 2 GFLOPS, 1 GOPS, 1056 MIPS, and can be programmed in Ada, C and Image Algebra

Keywords

aerospace computing; aerospace instrumentation; computerised instrumentation; computerised pattern recognition; computerised signal processing; military computing; parallel architectures; parallel machines; pipeline processing; radar; special purpose computers; telecommunications computing; 1056 MIPS; 2 GFLOPS; 32 MByte; 320C30 chips; 512 KByte; Ada; Aladdin architecture; Alliant Techsystems; C; Image Algebra; PREP chips; Parallel Recirculating Pipeline chips; automatic target recognition; avionics processing; distributed memory multiprocessor; high throughput; multiport memory; radar processing; reconfigurable scalable architecture; Aerospace electronics; Algebra; Contracts; Integrated circuit interconnections; Pipelines; Prototypes; Radar applications; Radar imaging; Scalability; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1992. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2420-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1992.183160

Filename

183160