Hot ice computer
Hot ice computer
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DOI：
10.1016/j.physleta.2009.10.072
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发表时间：
2009-12-28
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Adamatzky, Andrew
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作者：
Adamatzky, Andrew
实验证明，醋酸钠过饱和溶液，俗称“热冰”，是一台大规模并行的非常规计算机。在热冰中，计算机数据由浸没在实验容器中的结晶诱导点和物理障碍物的空间构型表示。计算是通过在数据点开始生长的晶体的传播和相互作用来实现的。我们讨论了计算平面Voronoi图、最短无冲突路径和实现AND和OR逻辑门的热冰处理器的实验原型。(C)2009爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
We experimentally demonstrate that supersaturated solution of sodium acetate, commonly called 'hot ice', is a massively-parallel unconventional computer. In the hot ice computer data are represented by a spatial configuration of crystallization induction sites and physical obstacles immersed in the experimental container. Computation is implemented by propagation and interaction of growing crystals initiated at the data-sites. We discuss experimental prototypes of hot ice processors which compute planar Voronoi diagram, shortest collision-free paths and implement AND and OR logical gates. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.