Inventor
BEARD DOUGLAS R
US20 patents
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CRAY RESEARCH INC
12 patentsUS5430884AJul 4, 1995
Scalar/vector processor
CRAY RESEARCH INC131 citations98
US5745721AApr 28, 1998
Partitioned addressing apparatus for vector/scalar registers
CRAY RESEARCH INC34 citations96
US5659706AAug 19, 1997
Vector/scalar processor with simultaneous processing and instruction cache filling
CRAY RESEARCH INC28 citations96
US5640524AJun 17, 1997
Method and apparatus for chaining vector instructions
CRAY RESEARCH INC41 citations96
US5561784AOct 1, 1996
Interleaved memory access system having variable-sized segments logical address spaces and means for dividing/mapping physical address into higher and lower order addresses
CRAY RESEARCH INC101 citations96
US5428803AJun 27, 1995
Method and apparatus for a unified parallel processing architecture
CRAY RESEARCH INC116 citations96
US5623650AApr 22, 1997
Method of processing a sequence of conditional vector IF statements
CRAY RESEARCH INC28 citations92
US5544337AAug 6, 1996
Vector processor having registers for control by vector resisters
CRAY RESEARCH INC33 citations92
US5524255AJun 4, 1996
Method and apparatus for accessing global registers in a multiprocessor system
CRAY RESEARCH INC20 citations92
US5706490AJan 6, 1998
Method of processing conditional branch instructions in scalar/vector processor
CRAY RESEARCH INC15 citations82
US5717881AFeb 10, 1998
Data processing system for processing one and two parcel instructions
CRAY RESEARCH INC6 citations73
US5598547AJan 28, 1997
Vector processor having functional unit paths of differing pipeline lengths
CRAY RESEARCH INC14 citations73
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD
6 patentsUS5197130AMar 23, 1993
Cluster architecture for a highly parallel scalar/vector multiprocessor system
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD340 citations98
US5175862ADec 29, 1992
Method and apparatus for a special purpose arithmetic boolean unit
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD90 citations93
US5239629AAug 24, 1993
Dedicated centralized signaling mechanism for selectively signaling devices in a multiprocessor system
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD48 citations92
US5165038ANov 17, 1992
Global registers for a multiprocessor system
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD26 citations92
US5253359AOct 12, 1993
Control and maintenance subsystem network for use with a multiprocessor computer system
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD64 citations89
US5055707AOct 8, 1991
Method and apparatus for single step clocking on signal paths longer than a clock cycle
SUPERCOMPUTER SYSTEMS LTD2 citations62