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Interesting historical artifact
Reconfigurable computing is a hot topic again, twenty years after the research that went into the book, but means something completely different. Although it has little to contribute to practice in the early 21st century, it offers worthwhile perspective on the field.

The Kartashevs describe a major multiprocessor. It contains some number of coarse-grained function units, each of which can act as an independent 16-bit processor, or which can be ganged to create larger word widths - apparently, an extreme of "bit slice" architecture. Reconfiguration at the next level up means changing the interprocessor network that exchanges results between units. Given that premise, the Kartashevs go on to develop an entire world of compilation techniques, scheduling and conflict resolution algorithms, fault tolerance schemes, and everything else needed to create a supercomputing system from the ground up.

History has not gone in their direction. Off-chip communication became increasingly expensive, making it more attractive to build increasingly capable chips rather than increasingly capable ensembles of chips. The performance bottleneck has generally moved from the CPU and communication systems, which the Kartashevs address, to the memory hierarchy. Interprocessor networks in supercomputers have grown too large for the Kartashev's fine-grained reworking of topology. Application developers could, for adequate reason, give up portability in interprocessor communication to take advantage of the connectivity options, but not for the modest performance gains cited here. Too, the reconfigurable fabric has changed. As chip development costs go through the roof, commodity chips become economically critical. Today, that means FPGAs, and FPGAs mean an enormously finer grain, range of on-chip connectivity options, and degree of control than the Kartashevs imagined. Scheduling and resource sharing have also been recast in terms compatible Unix device handling. And, perhaps most importantly, the driving reasons for reconfigurable computing have changed. Reagan's "Star Wars" defense initiative is long gone; the Soviet Union dissolved two years after this book was published, giving it little to defend against.

Good research remans good, no matter how the world changes around it. A careful reading of some system problems, especially in code analysis and resource scheduling, could offer ideas to today's worker reconfigurable processing. Although this book captures a striking achievement in system design, that system doesn't match technology at the time of this writing.

-- wiredweird

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