The Berkeley Motifs and an Integral Parallel Architecture

The Integral Parallel Architecture (IPA) developed by BrightScale is a low-power & low-area one-chip solution to solve intense computational problems using data-parallel, time-parallel and speculative-parallel mechanisms. BrightScale technology is presented and analyzed from the point of view of each of the 13 computational motifs proposed in The Berkeley’s View [1]. IPA emerges from the Stephen Kleene’s computational model of the partial recursive functions [3] as the simplest parallel architecture, a good starting point for a true science of parallel computation. We briefly investigate how such an elementary parallel architecture performs, for the main computational motifs, in solving the problems of programmability, portability, flexibility, data movement between computational cells, and between cells and the main memory.