“Sea” of Processors
•The idea of zillions of simple
processors derives from early theory on cellular automata and neural
modeling
•Ken
Batcher built MASPAR ca. 1983
•Danny
Hillis built CM-1 and CM-2 ca. 85-87
•Machines
must be SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) because they are too simple
to be
full vN machines
•All processors doing the same thing at the same time is too
constraining