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==Description==
The PEPE system was based on a number of interconnected chassis. Each of the main Processing Element Bays could hold 36 Processing Elements (PEs), arranged in four rows of nine PEs. A separate, similar, chassis held the control systems and a simple [[Computer terminal|computer console]] that displayed the status. The control system could control up to eight Bays, for a total of 288 PEs.<ref name=silogic/>
The PE consisted of three main [[Execution unit|functional units]], a [[floating point processor]] that could perform basic arithmatic including square roots, and separate input and output address generators that could determine the associative address of the next data element to be read, and the address of the output such that the results were ordered across processors. The data was stored in an [[content-addressable memory]] (associative addressing).<ref name=pepebline>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.silogic.com/PEPE/PEPE.html |title=PEPE |magazine= Burroughs B-Line |date=July 1977}}</ref>
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