Standford Dash (multiprocessors)

[legacy]

If you have heard about SGI's Numalink, the first generation came from the Stanford DASH project, which, in the origin, was based on a modified version of Motorola 88K. Dash was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the late 1980s by a group at Stanford University.

Then engineers at SGI massively used it for their MIPS-based computers. But in origin, it was an 88K (eighty-eight thousand) project.

The book above (which is simply marvelous) talks about the reason for the project but without talking about the 88K in detail. Does anyone have a reference, doc, book sequel, or something?



 

[legacy]

Talking to a Japanese friend on skype we found the book I was looking for:

• Processor Architecture: From Dataflow to Superscalar and Beyond - Jurij Silc, Borut Robic, Theo Ungerer

It talks about the MC88110MP by MIT (1991).
A good idea for a gift under the Xmas tree