NON-VON's applicability to three AI task area

  • Authors:
  • David Elliot Shaw

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'85 Proceedings of the 9th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

NON-VON is a massively parallel machine constructed using custom VLSI chips, each containing a number of simple processing elements. A preliminary prototype is now operational at Columbia University The machine is intended to provide highly efficient support for a wide range of artificial intelligence and other symbolic applications. This paper briefly describes the current version of the NONVON machine and presents evidence for its applicability to the execution of OPS5 production systems, a number of low- and intermediate-level computer vision tasks, and certain "difficult" relational algebraic operations relevant to knowledge base management. Analytic and simulation results are presented for a number of algorithms. The data suggest that NON-VON could provide a performance improvement of as much as two to three orders of magnitude over a conventional sequential machine for a wide range of AI tasks.