Communications of the ACM - Special issue on parallelism
Computer
Optical interconnects replace hardware
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE Spectrum
Optical computing: a survey for computer scientists
Optical computing: a survey for computer scientists
A bit-plane architecture for optical computing with two-dimensional symbolic substitution
ISCA '88 Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Symposium on Computer architecture
The connection machine
Optical computer architectures: the application of optical concepts to next generation computers
Optical computer architectures: the application of optical concepts to next generation computers
Highly parallel computing
Selected Papers on Optical Computing
Selected Papers on Optical Computing
The Impact of Optics on Data and Knowledge Base Systems
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The power of geometric duality and Minkowski sums in optical computational geometry
SCG '93 Proceedings of the ninth annual symposium on Computational geometry
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Sublogarithmic Deterministic Selection on Arrays with a Reconfigurable Optical Bus
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Linear array with a reconfigurable pipelined bus system - Concepts and applications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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A 3-D optical architecture currently under investigation is described. This model, a single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) system, exploits spatial parallelism and processes 2-D binary images as fundamental computational entities using symbolic substitution logic. This system effectively implements highly structured data-parallel algorithms, such as signal and image processing, partial differential equations, multidimensional numerical transforms, and numerical supercomputing. The model includes a hierarchical mapping technique that helps design the algorithms and maps them onto the proposed optical architecture. The symbolic substitution logic and the mapping of data-parallel algorithms are discussed. The theoretical performance of the optical system was estimated and compared with that of electronic SIMD array processors. Preliminary results show that the system provides greater computational throughput and efficiency than its electronic counterparts.