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Stream PRAM: Research: Darrell Ulm @ Microsoft Research

Stream Pram is a paper co-written by Darrell Ulm, cat be accessed at
Darrell Ulm Stream Pram Research Paper
This is a paper about a multiple instruction stream style model of Parallel Random Access Memory (PRAM) parallel computation.

The paper deals mostly with theoretical parallel computation as compared to applied parallel computing.

Other links about the Stream Pram.
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