Abstract
The classification ECS is introduced as a means of describing parallel machine architectures. ECS may be used for comparison of different architectures at first sight. Beyond this qualitative approach, ECS also furnishes a qualitative measure of computer performance. ECS reflects the structure of the machine by two triples, representing the parallelism and the pipelining on three different levels of operation: program control unit, arithmetic logical unit, and elementary logic circuit. ECS is applied to several examples, mainly to the Erlangen General Purpose Array (EGPA).
| Translated title of the contribution | Classification of Parallel Computer-Architecture: Introduction of the ECS (Erlanger Classification Scheme) and its Application to EGPA. |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 317-331 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | RAIRO Inf Comput Sci |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 1978 |