Multiprocessors with a serial multiport memory and a pseudo crossbar of serial links used s a processor-memeory switch
Daniel Litaize, Omar Hammami, Mustapha Lalam, Adelaziz Mzoughi, Pascl Sinrat · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1989
This paper presents an inventive information exchange pro-cess between the main memory and cache equipped processors. It makes use of serial multiport memories and high throughput serial transmission supports. It is then possible to consider the realization of a multiprocessor with a common memory shared by several hundreds processors set with a performance level close to that of a crossbar network one's without having its disadvantages. This exchange process generates a family of possible architectures in which serial transfers of informations are parallelized, in the contrary of conventional architectures which serialize parallel transfers of informations.