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A RISC-type structural design of the Hermes multiprocessor kernel

  • Session 10: Algorithms, Architectures And Performance III
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Supercomputing (ICS 1987)

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Abstract

HERMES is a heterogeneous, real-time, reconfigurable, multiprocessor vision machine, consisted of [N2/4] microprocessor-nodes in a 2-D array structure. It receives the image data directly from the environment, using a 2-D photoarray of NxN cells, and processes them in a parallel-hierarchical (bottom-up and top-down) manner without using a host computer for its function.

This paper deals with the RISC-type structural organization of the HERMES multi-processor kernel and with some ideas for its VLSI geometric configuration. The kernel of the HERMES vision system consists of four Z-adjacent microprocessornodes which occupy a square type area.

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, 22030, Fairfax, VA

    Dimitris Fotakis & Nikolaos Bourbakis

  2. Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece

    Dimitris Fotakis & Nikolaos Bourbakis

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E. N. Houstis T. S. Papatheodorou C. D. Polychronopoulos

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Fotakis, D., Bourbakis, N. (1988). A RISC-type structural design of the Hermes multiprocessor kernel. In: Houstis, E.N., Papatheodorou, T.S., Polychronopoulos, C.D. (eds) Supercomputing. ICS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18991-2_60

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