Manchester Dataflow Machine
Realizes: fine-grained token-driven computation
The Manchester Dataflow Machine concept of the 1970s emphasized token-based dataflow execution with tokens flowing through FIFO routers and firing operations out of order as soon as operands arrived, exposing fine-grained dataflow computation across processors.
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Manchester Dataflow Machine design paper
Published descriptions of the Manchester Dataflow Machine and related MU5 experiments documenting token routing and scheduling behaviors.
Sample workloads included scientific pipelines, signal processing flows, and compiled functional programs mapped to automatic token-driven execution.
experimental prototype
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