CISE Research Instrumentation: Hypercube I\O System

该奖项用于购买两个 I/O 节点，用于英特尔 iPSC/2 计算机系统。 该系统支持多个领域的研究，包括开发用于 MIMD 架构的 C 翻译器和编译器、用于图像处理和机器视觉的神经网络以及用于高级测向的并行算法。 有几个问题可以自然地适应并行计算机体系结构。 该奖项研究了两个这样的问题。 首先是神经网络的研究。 这些网络已被提议作为视觉的自然模型，并且很容易在并行计算机上进行模拟。 希望可以通过足够复杂的网络来实现实时视觉。 第二个问题是信号处理。 特定的应用是自动测向，这是一个其解决方案在声纳、监视和地震应用领域中非常重要的问题。 为了减少信号中噪声引入的误差，需要进行大量计算。 最后一个研究领域是开发 C 编程语言的解释器和编译器。 该项目将通过提供现代高级编程语言的编译器来支持其他项目。

This award is for the purchase of two I/O nodes for use with an Intel iPSC/2 computer system. The system supports research in several areas including the development of a C++ translator and compiler for MIMD architectures, neural networks for image processing and machine vision, and parallel algorithms for high level direction finding. There are several problems that can be naturally adapted to parallel computer architectures. Two such problems are studied under this award. The first is research in neural networks. These networks have been proposed as natural models for vision and are easily simulated on parallel computers. The hope is that real time vision can be accomplished with a complex enough network. The second problem is in signal processing. The particular application is automatic direction finding which is a problem whose solution is important in sonar, surveillance, and seismic application areas. Massive computation is needed in order to reduce errors introduced by noise in the signals. The final area of research is in the development of an interpreter and compiler for the programming language C++. This project will support other projects by providing a compiler for a modern high level programming language.