Engineering:Blitzen (computer)
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The Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.[1] The Blitzen was composed of a control unit and a set of simple processors connected in a grid topology. The machine influenced, to some extent, the design of the MasPar MP-1 computer.[2]
Applications of the Blitzen machine include high-speed image processing, where each processor operates on a pixel of the input image and communicates with its grid neighbours to apply image processing filters on the image.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Blevins, D. W.; Davis, E. W.; Heaton, R. A.; Reif, J. H. (1988). "BLITZEN: A highly integrated massively parallel machine". Proc. Symp. Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19900007137.pdf.
- ↑ Cypher, Robert; Sanz, Jorge L. C. (2012). The SIMD Model of Parallel Computation. Springer. p. 31.
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