1.0 Introduction
Running computers with a single CPU seems not sufficient to satisfy the need for higher performance from computers. Running several CPUs concurrently to solve application tasks will provide an improvement in performance over a single CPU operation. This write up examines the various arrangement and architecture of processors to achieve better performance using special architectures on one part and multiple processors on the other.
The different architectures of processor are based on the taxonomy released in an article by Flynn in 1966. Flynn's taxonomy of computer machines classified computer systems into four categories namely Single Instruction Single
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