Talk:Serial computer

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Are massively parallel computers serial?

Serial computers were typically implemented as a cost or complexity-saving measure. In contrast, Massively parallel computers are high-cost machines with performance as their main goal. Serial computers are characterized by running a large data word serially, bit-by-bit, through a single-bit ALU element. The cited Goodyear MPP is not a bit-serial computer even though it used single bit computing elements. It is really a SIMD computer as 16,384 single bit elements are working on different parts of the data simultaneously. Likewise the Connection Machine CM-1 and CM-2 are described in their articles as SIMD, not bit-serial. I suggest removing all the cited examples of massively parallel computers from the serial computer article. They are two unrelated technologies.

-- (unsigned) 021-04-09T15:46:43‎ RastaKins

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Are massively parallel computers serial?