{"title":"VAX vector architecture","authors":"D. Bhandarkar, Richard Brunner","doi":"10.1145/325164.325145","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The VAX architecture has been extended to include an integrated, register-based vector processor. This extension allows both high-end and low-end implementations and can be supported with only small changes by VAX/VMS and VAX/ULTRIX operating systems. The extension is effectively exploited by the new vectorizing capabilities of VAX Fortran. Features of the VAX vector architecture and the design decisions which make it a consistent extension of the VAX architecture are discussed.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":297046,"journal":{"name":"[1990] Proceedings. The 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture","volume":"38 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1990] Proceedings. The 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/325164.325145","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The VAX architecture has been extended to include an integrated, register-based vector processor. This extension allows both high-end and low-end implementations and can be supported with only small changes by VAX/VMS and VAX/ULTRIX operating systems. The extension is effectively exploited by the new vectorizing capabilities of VAX Fortran. Features of the VAX vector architecture and the design decisions which make it a consistent extension of the VAX architecture are discussed.<>