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The Manchester prototype dataflow computer

John R. Gurd, Chris Kirkham, Ian Watson

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The Manchester project has developed a powerful dataflow processor based on dynamic tagging. This processor is large enough to tackle realistic applications and exhibits impressive speedup for programs with sufficient parallelism.

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The Manchester project has developed a powerful dataflow processor based on dynamic tagging. This processor is large enough to tackle realistic applications and exhibits impressive speedup for programs with sufficient parallelism.

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The Manchester project has developed a powerful dataflow processor based on dynamic tagging. This processor is large enough to tackle realistic applications and exhibits impressive speedup for programs with sufficient parallelism.

Key concepts: Dataflow, Speedup, Computer science, Parallel computing, Dataflow architecture, Parallelism (grammar), Computer architecture, Operating system

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