A very forgotten VLIW architecture of the late 1980s: Intel iWarp is a combined VLIW and RISC computer architecture that coupled a 32-bit CPU core with long instructions and “powerful communication support” to enable meshed computers for powerful parallel computing with >20 GFLOPS. Intel iWarp was jointly developed between Intel and Carnegie Mellon University, supported by DARPA (DoD) in the late 1980s. It was based on the earlier CMU Warp, “a programmable systolic array” for meshed c...
