CS258: Reading Assignment #6 Due Monday, February 25

1. Active messages: a mechanism for integrated communication and computation  Thorsten von Eicken, David E. Culler, Seth Copen Goldstein,     Klaus Erik Schauser. Appears in the Proceedings of the 19th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, 1992. See ISCA Retrospective
2. Supporting systolic and memory communication in iWarp, Shekhar Borkar, Robert Cohn, George Cox, Thomas Gross, H. T. Kung, Monica Lam, Margie Levine, Brian Moore, Wire  Moore, Craig Peterson, Jim Susman, Jim Sutton, John Urbanski, Jon Webb. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1990.
3. The Message-Driven Processor: A Multicomputer Processing Node with Efficient Mechanisms, William Dally, J.A. Stuart Fiske, John Keen, Richard Lethin, Michael Noakes, Peter Nuth, Roy Davison, and Gregory Fyler, Appears in IEEE Micro, April 1992
   

Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.  Note that you have already read about the MDP last week, so #3 should be that bad.  Look for additional information that wasn't in last week's MDP paper. I will be asking for paper leaders for #1 and #2 for next Monday.