The AIS-5000 parallel processor

Author

Schmitt, Lorenz A. ; Wilson, Stephen S.

Author_Institution

Appl. Intelligent Syst. Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

1988

fDate

5/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

330

Abstract

The AIS-5000 is a commercially available massively parallel processor which was designed to operate in an industrial environment. It has fine-grained parallelism with up to 1024 processing elements arranged in a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architecture. The processing elements are arranged in a one-dimensional chain that, for computer vision applications, can be as wide as the image itself. The overall architecture of the system is described. Various components of the system are discussed, including details of the processing elements, data I/O (input/output) pathways and parallel memory organization. A virtual two-dimensional model for programming image-based algorithms for the system is also presented. Performance benchmarks are given for certain simple and complex functions

Keywords

computer vision; computerised picture processing; microprocessor chips; parallel architectures; AIS-5000; SIMD architecture; computer vision; computerised picture processing; image-based algorithms; parallel architecture; parallel memory organization; parallel processor; Algorithm design and analysis; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer vision; Costs; Parallel processing; Process design; Signal processing algorithms; Software algorithms; Software libraries;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0162-8828

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/34.3897

Filename

3897