ABSTRACT
In the 1980s, advances in computer architecture research were most pronounced on two fronts: on the one hand, new architectural techniques such as RISC made their appearance and revolutionized single processor design and allowed high performance for the single chip microprocessors which first came out as system components in the 1970s. At the same time, large-scale parallel processors became mature and could be used by researchers in many nigh-end, computationally intensive, scientific applications.
