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Graduate Computer Architecture

UC Berkeley CS252

Summer 2006

 


Paper reading 3:

Read "The CRAY-1 computer system" by R.M. Russell, Comm. of the ACM, January 1978

Comment on the following:

  • vector vs. scalar speed
  • min. size vector faster than scalar loop
  • relative speed to other computers
  • clock rate, size of register state, memory size, number of functional units, and general impressions compared to today’s CPUs