Editing Dataflow (section)

==Hardware architecture==
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Hardware architectures for dataflow was a major topic in [[computer architecture]] research in the 1970s and early 1980s. [[Jack Dennis]] of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) pioneered the field of static dataflow architectures. Designs that use conventional memory addresses as data dependency tags are called static dataflow machines. These machines did not allow multiple instances of the same routines to be executed simultaneously because the simple tags could not differentiate between them. Designs that use [[content-addressable memory]] are called dynamic dataflow machines by [[Arvind (computer scientist)|Arvind]]. They use tags in memory to facilitate parallelism.
Data flows around the computer through the components of the computer. It gets entered from the input devices and can leave through output devices (printer etc.).