- Authors:
- Mark D Hill,
- Susan J. Eggers,
- James R Larus,
- George S. Taylor,
- Glenn D. Adams,
- Bidyut K Bose,
- Garth A. Gibson,
- Paul M Hansen,
- John Keller,
- Shing I. Kong,
- Corinna G Lee,
- Daebum Lee,
- J. M. Pendleton,
- Scott A Ritchie,
- David A. Wood,
- Benjamin G. Zorn,
- Paul N. Hilfinger,
- D. A. Hodges,
- Randy H. Katz,
- John K. Ousterhout,
- David A. Patterson
SPUR (Symbolic Processing Using RISCs) is a workstation for conducting parallel processing research. SPUR contains 6 to 12 high-performance homogeneous processors connected with a shared bus. The number of processors is large enough to permit parallel processing experiments, but small enough to allow packaging as a personal workstation. The restricted processor count also allows us to build powerful RISC processors, which include support for Lisp and IEEE floating-point, at reasonable cost. This paper presents a specification of SPUR and the results of some early architectural experiments. SPUR features include a large virtually-tagged cache, address translation without a translation buffer, LISP support with datatype tags but without microcode, multiple cache consistency in hardware, and an IEEE floating-point coprocessor without microcode.
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