Alewife (multiprocessor), a project led by Agarwal at MIT that was a predecessor to the Beowulf cluster.
This award entitled nine months fully sponsored three visits to the ICTP, Trieste, Italy for attending the workshops and doing the research in the fields of real-time applications, Hardware Interface for MATLAB, fourier transforming intelligent sensors, development of image processing algorithm for vehicle detection and monitoring Applications, Performance Evaluation of a Multiprocessor Systems Using Hardware Simulation.
The speedup was presented as the ratio of the execution time on a uniprocessor over that on a multiprocessor, when executing the same parallel Time Warp algorithm.
By 1972 Plessey designed the first industrial Capability-based security computer, a fault-tolerant multiprocessor system called Plessey System 250.
In that time the alternatives for professional digital image editing were over-200k-and-more-USD dedicated workstations like Quantel's Paintbox, Crossfield or Barco Creator software running on expensive SGI Power series multiprocessor boxes.
Speculative multithreading, a dynamic parallelization technique that depends on out-of-order execution to achieve speedup on multiprocessor CPUs.
Zilog added a memory management unit (MMU) to expand the addressing range to 16 MB, features for multitasking and multiprocessor and coprocessor configurations, a 256 byte cache, and a huge number of new instructions and addressing modes (giving a total of over 2000 combinations).