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(b) Double precision (8 bit exponent; 56 bit mantissa) |
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DADF DSBF DMPF DDVF DSQRTF |
ADD ARRAY FIELD TO ARRAY FIELD SUBTRACT ARRAY FIELD FROM ARRAY FIELD MULTIPLY ARRAY FIELD BY ARRAY FIELD DIVIDE ARRAY FIELD BY ARRAY FIELD CALCULATE SQUARE ROOT OF ARRAY FIELD |
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G. Miscellaneous parallel array instructions |
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FIND STEP RESVFST COUNTRS SHIFTY ROTATY |
FIND FIRST RESPONDER(Y RESPONSE STORE BITS SET) STEP TO FIRST RESPONDER AND CLEAR IT SHIFT Y END-OFF (OPTIONAL Pio REQUIRED) |
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VI. Control and Test instructions |
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INT ILOCK WAIT RUN RUNBF IOWAIT INSTP EXIT |
CONTROL AND TEST INTERRUPT DEACTIVATE AP IDENTIFY OVERLAY MODULE WAIT OR BRANCH IF I/O IS BUSY INTERRUPT SEQUENTIAL PROCESSOR PROGRAM TRANSFER CONTROL TO BATCH OPERATING SYSTEM (BOS) |
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VII. Input/Output (I/O) instructions |
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A. Standard I/O instructions |
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OPEN OBUFF READ RBUFF WRITE WBUFF CLOSE |
INITIALIZE DATASET DEFINE I/O DATASET START READING DEFINE INPUT BUFFER START WRITING |
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B. Optional parallel I/O (Pio) instructions |
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TPIO MAM SAM LAM DPIO |
CONTROL AND TEST Pio CONTROL |
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VIII. Program pager instructions |
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STRTSG ENDSG MVSG MVSGI PAGER |
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As of January 1979, five STARANs have been built. A listing of the configuration of existing STARAN systems is given in Table 8. All STARAN systems include one AP array, AP control, control
Table 8 STARAN Configuration
System |
Series |
Arrays † |
Pio |
Comments |
1 |
B |
4 |
Yes |
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2 |
B |
4 |
Yes |
Parallel-head disk |
3 |
B |
2 |
No |
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4 |
B |
2 |
No |
Multiple tape units |
5 |
E |
4 |
No |
Cross bar I/0 to array |
†B arrays are 256 PEs by 256 bits.
E arrays are 256 PEs by 9,216 bits.
memory, program pager, sequential controller, disk, line printer, card reader, and control terminal.
References
Barnes, Brown, Kato, Kuck, Slotnick, and Stokes [1968]; Batcher [1976]; Batcher [1977]; Boulis and Faiss [1977]; Falk [1976]; Feierbach and Stevenson [1979]; Flynn [1966], Gregory and McReynolds [1963]; Keller [1975]; Kuck [1968]; Lunde [1977]; Ramamoorthy and Li [1977]; Ruben, Faiss, Lyon, and Quinn [1976]; Slotnick et al. [1962]; Thurber and Wald [1975]; Vocar and Faiss [1977]; Yau and Fung [1977].