(An) office workstation based on distributed processing architecture

Abstract

Currently, there are two types of high performance office workstation architectures being pursued : processor sharing using either higher speed random logic or bit slice processor, and functional partitioning based on multiple microprocessors. This thesis analyzes system, processor, and memory architectures of existing high performance office workstations, and suggests the new high performance office workstation architecture using the computer networking technology with the concurrent language machines. The architecture is based on multiple engine and message-passing architecture as opposed to the shared memory architecture of existing high performance office workstations. The layered partitionimg concept and the serial backplane system bus structure are adopted. The concurrent language processor is used as heart of each engine.