eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (10/11/85)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Ames Research Center
SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
Joint RIACS/Computational Research Branch Seminar
SPEAKER: H. T. Kung
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213
TOPIC: A Programmable Systolic Array Machine
ABSTRACT: A high-performance systolic array computer called Warp has been
designed by CMU and is currently under construction. The full scale machine
has a systolic array of 10 or more cells, each of which is a programmable
processor capable of performing 10 million floating-point operations per
second (10 MFLOPS). A compiler is being developed to allow programming in a
high-level language. Low-level vision processing for robots and autonomous
vehicles is among the first applications of the machine.
As of September 1985, a 2-cell prototype machine was running at full speed
doing demonstrations on an CMU-built autonomous land vehicle. By the end of
1985, CMU's industrial partners of the project (GE and Honeywell) will each
deliver to CMU a 10-cell machine. Ten or more machines will be built in
1986.
This talk will describe the Warp machine and explain why the machine is
expected to deliver the power of supercomputers at a fraction of their
costs, for areas such as low-level vision.
DATE: 24 Oct 1985 TIME: 1 pm BLDG: 233 ROOM: 172
Thursday
POINT OF CONTACT: E. Miya PHONE NUMBER: (415)-694-6453
eugene@ames-nas.ARPA
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