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This paper describes the architecture of DOOM, a Decentralized Object-Oriented Machine, which is being designed in the Computer Science department of Philips Research Laboratories. The paper starts by resuming the essential characteristics of POOL-T, the parallel object-oriented language designed in the framework of the project. An abstract architecture matching the computational model of the language is then described. In three successive steps this architecture is transformed to the DOOM architecture which is under design. Each of the steps reveals the requirements on the actual system that are introduced by the transformation. The DOOM architecture consists of a collection of self contained computers, consisting of a cpu, local memory and a communication unit to connect these computers via a point-to-point packet switching network. The functional requirements and the architecture of the cpu, the memory and the communication networks are then treated in greater detail, covering one section each.
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Bronnenberg, W.J.H.J., Janssens, M.D., Odijk, E.A.M., van Twist, R.A.H. (1987). The architecture of DOOM. In: Treleaven, P., Vanneschi, M. (eds) Future Parallel Computers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 272. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18203-9_6
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