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The Warp project was a series of increasingly general-purpose programmable systolic array systems and related software. The project was created by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and developed in conjunction with industrial partners G.E., Honeywell, and Intel with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). There were three distinct machine designs known as the WW-Warp, PC-Warp, and iWarp. Each successive design was made increasingly general-purpose by increasing memory capacity and relaxing the tight synchronization between processors. A two-cell prototype of WW-Warp was completed in June 1985, the first WW-Warp in February 1986, the first PC-Warp in April 1987, and the first iWarp system in March 1990. iWarp systems were produced and sold by Intel in 1992 and 1993 to universities, government agencies, and industrial research laboratories. Signal and image processing were the target applications for the Warp program, a natural fit for systolic...
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Reinders, J.R. (2011). Warp and iWarp. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_472
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