Architecture and application s of DADO: a large-scale parallel computer for artificial intelligence

  • Authors:
  • Salvatore J. Stolfo;Daniel Miranker;David Elliot Shaw

  • Affiliations:
  • Columbia University;Columbia University;Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

As part of our research on very high performance parallel architectures, we have been investigating; machine architectures specially adapted to the highly efficient implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) software. In the course of our research we designed DADO, a highly parallel, VLSI-based, tree-structured machine, and implemented a high-speed algorithm for production systems on a simulator for DADO. Subsequent research has convinced us that DADO can support many other AI applications, including the very rapid execution of PROLOG programs, and a large share of the symbolic processing typical of contemporary knowledge-based systems. In this brief report, we outline the hardware design of a moderate size DADO prototype, comprising 1023 processing elements, which is currently under construction at Columbia University. We then sketch the software base being implemented on a small 15 processing element prototype system including several applications written in PPL/M, a high-level language designed for specifying parallel computations on DADO.