A Parallel Electro-Optical Computer Architecture for Artificial Intelligence

The users of the supercomputer are changing from the scientific community to the business community. However, the database and knowledge base applications are executed on the computer based on the Neumann architecture designed for the numerical processing. We propose a novel parallel computer architecture that uses optical devices to exploit the inherent parallelism of optics for the parallel processing of the rule-based systems. The proposed system uses two-dimensional spaces as basic computational entities and is therefore able to perform concurrent comparison operations of the expert system.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Computer Engineering Dept., Hansei University, Kun Po Si, Kyung Gi Do, South Korea

   Jong Whoa Na

Editors and Affiliations

1. Nanyang Centre for Supercomputing and Visualisation School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639 798, Singapore

   Kim-Meow Liew

2. School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide,  

   Hong Shen

3. Asia Pacific Science and Technology Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., 50 Nanyang Avenue, N3-1c-10, 639798, Singapore

   Simon See

4. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

   Wentong Cai

5. Southwest Jiaotong University,  

   Pingzhi Fan

6. Tohoku University ,  

   Susumu Horiguchi

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