The development of the WASP 3 processor

Abstract

The ASP (associative string processor) is a massively parallel, fault tolerant, fully associative processor designed for the implementation of very compact, easily extensible, modular low-multiple-instruction, multiple-data/high-single-instruction multiple-data (low-MIMD/high-SIMD) parallel processing systems. It is capable of supporting real-world applications of continuous data input and tightly integrated numeric and symbolic computations. The ASP module architecture and the wafer-scale (WASP-3) concept are described.<>