Exploiting natural parallelism by special-purpose hardware

The author looks at some of the functional requirements of intelligent IR, concentrating on a program-independent analysis of appropriate abstract data structures. Intelligent IR systems manipulate the same structures as do other knowledge-based systems, and there is much inherent parallelism in these structure manipulations. Based on experience of a limited-functionality, novel SIMD hardware unit called the Intelligent File Store, the author proposes a general interface to an active memory system called an AI structure store. He then briefly describes novel parallel hardware which implements the AI structure primitives