Research and Development of the Stream Processor Technology
Tao Tang · Computer Engineering and Science · 2008
High-performance computing techniques have had a continuous development during the past decade.However,problems like off-chip storage and communication delay remain not truly resolved.Line delay and power consumption problems are more and more obvious.The high-performance computing area is seeking for a new processor system structure to cope with such problems.Stream processor is a newcomer which is developing rapidly among many newly emerging processor system structures and has won wide concerns in both research and industry worlds.It has already had good effects in digital processing,multimedia and image processing areas.This paper analyzes several current popular stream processors and points out the application prospects as well as the challenges of the stream architecture in the scientific computing field.