Computing in Memory Bibliography
With processor clock rates outstripping memory access
times, and each new hierarchy of caching contributing more
overhead, it makes sense to put some of the processing
internal to the memory where there already exists
thousands of times more bandwidth then at the CPU.
Here's my bibliography of multiple processors in
memory. The PIM and C-RAM were specifically designed to be
useful as main memory. I've made the sometimes subjective
distinction between "multiple processors integrated
into structure of memory array" and "multiple
processors and memory macros integrated onto a chip".
Please send suggestions and additions.
Hypertext references like those below would be particularly helpful.
Multiple processors integrated into structure of memory array
C-RAM
Duncan G. Elliott,
W. Martin Snelgrove,
and
Michael Stumm.
Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD Hybrid and its Application to DSP.
In Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pages
30.6.1--30.6.4, Boston, MA, May 1992.
Duncan G. Elliott,
W. Martin Snelgrove,
Christian Cojocaru,
and
Michael Stumm.
A PetaOp/s is Currently Feasible by Computing in RAM.
In PetaFLOPS Frontier Workshop, Washington DC, February 1995.
D. G. Elliott and W. M. Snelgrove. C-RAM: Memory with a Fast
SIMD Processor. In Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on
VLSI, pages 3.3.1--3.3.6, Ottawa, October 1990.
TI SVP
Jim Childers, Peter Reinecke, and Hiroshi Miyaguchi. SVP: A
Serial Video Processor. IEEE 1990 Custom Integrated Circuits
Conference, pages 17.3.1--17.3.4, May 1990.
Hiroshi Miyaguchi, Hujime Krasawa, and Xhinichi Watanabe.
Digital TV with Serial Video Processor. IEEE Transactions on
Consumer Electronics, 36(3):318--326, August 1990.
VIP
Per-Erik Danielsson, Par Emanuelsson, Keping Chen, and
Per Ingelhag. Single-Chip High-Speed Computation of Optical
Flow. In IAPR International Workshop on Machine Vision
Applications, pages 331--335, November 1990.
Pixel Planes
Henry Fuchs, John Poulton, John Eyles, Trey Greer, Jack
Goldfeather, David Ellsworth, Steve Molnar, Greg Turk, Brice
Trebbs, and Laura Israel. Pixel-Planes 5: A Heterogeneous
Multiprocessor Graphics System Using Processor-Enhanced
Memories. In SIGGRAPH'89, pages 79--88, Boston, July 1989.
Henry Fuchs, Jack Goldfeather, Jeff P. Hultquist, Susan
Spach, John D. Austin, Jr. Frederick P. Brooks, John G.
Eyles, and John Poulton. Fast Spheres, Shadows, Textures,
Transparencies, and Image Enhancemts in Pixel-Planes. In
SIGGRAPH'85, pages 111--120, San Francisco, July 1985.
Multiple processors and memory macros integrated onto a chip
PIM
Maya Gokhale, Bill Holmes, and Ken Iobst. Processing in
Memory: the Terasys Massively Parallel PIM Array. Computer,
28(3):23--31, April 1995.
Loring Wirbel. NSA taps Cray Computer, National. Electronic
Engineering Times, 1(816):39--40, September 26 1994.
Maya Gokhale, Bill Holmes, Ken Iobst, Alan Murray, and Tom
Turnbull. A Massively Parallel Processor-in-Memory Array and
its Programming Environment. Technical Report SRC-TR-92-076,
Supercomputer Research Centre - Institute for Defence
Analyses, 17100 Science Drive, Bowie, Maryland, November
1992.
Execube
Peter M. Kogge. EXECUBE - A New Architecture for
Scalable MPPs. In 1994 International Conference on Parallel
Processing, pages I77--I84, August 1994.
Peter M. Kogge, Toshio Sunaga, Hisatada Miyataka, Koji
Kitamura, and Eric Retter. Combined DRAM and Logic for
Massively Parallel Systems. In Conference on Advanced
Research in VLSI, pages 4--16, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1995.
Blitzen
J. M. Jennings, E. W. Davis, and R. A. Heaton. Comparative
Performance Evaluation of a New SIMD Machine. In Proceedings
of the 3nd Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel
Computation, pages 255--258, College Park MD, October 1990.
R. A. Heaton and D. W. Blevins. BLITZEN: a VLSI Array
Processing Chip. In Custom Integrated Circuits Conference,
pages 12.1.1--12.1.5, San Diego, CA, May 1989.
D. W. Blevins, E. W. Davis, R. A. Heaton, and J. H. Reif.
BLITZEN: a Highly Integrated Massively Parallel Machine.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on the Frontiers of
Massively Parallel Computation, pages 399--406, Fairfax VA,
October 1988.
NEC IMAP
Nobuyuki Yamashita, Tohru Kimura, Yoshihiro Fujita,
Yoshiharu Aimoto, Takashi Manaba, Shin'ichiro Okazaki,
Kazuyuki Nakamura, and Masakazu Yamashina. A 3.84GIPS
Integrated Memory Array Processor LSI with 64 Processing
Elements and 2Mb SRAM. In International Solid-State Circuits
Conference, pages 260--261, San Francisco, February 1994.
NEC.
PPRAM
Peter Schiefer. Picture Processing RAMs (PPRAMs) for Motion
Estimation. ce, 38(3):570--575, August 1992.
Geometric Array Parallel Processor
Eugene L. Cloud. The Geometric Arithmetic Parallel
Processor. In The 2nd Symposium on the Frontiers of
Massively Parallel Computation, pages 373--381, Fairfax
Virginia, October 1988. Martin Marietta Electronic Systems.
Single processor and significant memory integrated onto a chip
Analog Devices SHARC
more to come
Designs without hardware implementations
Microprocessor Report. Personal Views on the Future
of Microprocessors. Microprocessor Report, pages 11--14,
November 7 1990. [
David A. Patterson's comments on
IRAM.]
Harold S. Stone. A Logic-in-Memory Computer. IEEE
Transactions on Computers, C-19(1):73--78, January 1970.
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