The Manchester prototype dataflow computer

John R. Gurd, Chris Kirkham, Ian Watson

Communications of the ACM · 1985 · 465 citations · 11 references

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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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