Fine grain parallelism on a MIMD machine using FPGAs

Current MIMD machines are used for coarse grain-parallelism and also offer message passing mechanisms to deal with inter-processor communications. But these mechanisms lack efficiency in fine-grain parallel applications such as systolic computation. This article presents the use of an FPGA chip to set up a fast systolic communication agent on a linear asynchronous network of Transputer processors, the machine is called ARMEN