Realising massively concurrent systems on the SPACE machine

G. Milne; P. Cockshott; G. McCaskill; P. Barrie

doi:10.1109/FPGA.1993.279482

Realising massively concurrent systems on the SPACE machine

G. Milne, P. Cockshott, G. McCaskill, P. Barrie

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Highly concurrent systems occur frequently in the physical world. This paper focuses on a class of systems characterised as being highly concurrent and which are composed out of many simple parts which interact with other parts in their locality. It discusses how to describe these systems and introduces a cellular automata type of architecture which is used to simulate these systems directly in hardware, with physical concurrency being realised by true hardware concurrency. The architecture of the SPACE machine (Scalable Parallel Architecture for Concurrency Experiments), which is constructed from reconfigurable FPGA logic, is introduced and it is demonstrated how to simulate road traffic systems using it.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1993
Publisher	IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	26-32
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	0818638907
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1993.279482
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1993
Externally published	Yes
Event	1993 IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1993 - Napa, United States Duration: 5 Apr 1993 → 7 Apr 1993

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Conference	1993 IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1993
Country/Territory	United States
City	Napa
Period	5/04/93 → 7/04/93

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Milne, G, Cockshott, P, McCaskill, G & Barrie, P 1993, Realising massively concurrent systems on the SPACE machine. in Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1993., 279482, IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 26-32, 1993 IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1993, Napa, United States, 5/04/93. https://doi.org/10.1109/FPGA.1993.279482

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