TY - JOUR
T1 - Prototype of a semantic network machine IXM
AU - Higuchi, Tetsuya
AU - Furuya, Tatsumi
AU - Kusumoto, Hiroyuki
AU - Handa, Ken'ichi
AU - Kokubu, Akio
PY - 1989/12/1
Y1 - 1989/12/1
N2 - A semantic network machine IXM and its prototype are described. IXM is a multiprocessor system with large associative memories. The prototype can handle 64K links of semantic network in parallel using associative memories. It is shown that associative memory is very effective in suppressing the computational explosion in large semantic network processing. Logical operations can also be done in parallel on all the words of associative memory, achieving, for example, 1880 MOPS for the LESS THAN operation. The prototype consists of 32 processors and 128-kwords-by-40-b associative memories. IXM executes programs written in the IXL language, a superset of Prolog, so that IXM can be utilized as a back end to AI workstations.
AB - A semantic network machine IXM and its prototype are described. IXM is a multiprocessor system with large associative memories. The prototype can handle 64K links of semantic network in parallel using associative memories. It is shown that associative memory is very effective in suppressing the computational explosion in large semantic network processing. Logical operations can also be done in parallel on all the words of associative memory, achieving, for example, 1880 MOPS for the LESS THAN operation. The prototype consists of 32 processors and 128-kwords-by-40-b associative memories. IXM executes programs written in the IXL language, a superset of Prolog, so that IXM can be utilized as a back end to AI workstations.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0024927071
SN - 0190-3918
VL - 1
SP - 217
EP - 224
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
T2 - Proceedings of the 1989 International Conference on Parallel Processing
Y2 - 8 August 1989 through 12 August 1989
ER -