2019/07/16 by Daniel Etiemble, Etiemble, Daniel · 1 voice
Computer Science · #Advanced Data Storage Technologies #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Hardware Architecture (cs.AR) #Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques #cs.AR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.06948
8 pages, 8 figures, Conférence d'Informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (COMPAS'2019), June 25-28, Anglet, France
arxiv created 2019/07/16 · openalex publication_date 2019/07/16 · arxiv updated 2019/07/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The appearance and disappearance of coprocessors by integration into the CPU, the success or failure of coprocessors are examined by summarizing their characteristics from the mainframes of the 1960s. The coprocessors most particularly reviewed are the IBM 360 and CDC-6600 I/O processors, the Intel 8087 math coprocessor, the Cell processor, the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, the GPUs, the FPGAs, and the coprocessors of manycores SW26010 and Pezy SC-2 used in high-ranked supercomputers in the TOP500 or Green500. The conditions for a coprocessor to be viable in the medium or long-term are defined.