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From: wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Special Hardware for Neural Nets...
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Date: 15 Oct 90 13:12:03 GMT
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Some people were asking about specialized hardware for
Neural Nets. I was just visiting Coherent Research
in Syracuse New York (315-555-1212 for the phone number)
and saw a demo of their Coherent Processor. This is a 
very sparsely connnected SIMD machine with one bit
processors and plenty of CAM. They were running a neural
net like recognizer of letters. 

If you call them up, they can send you application notes
on how they did it. The board costs $19,500, fits in a 
IBM-PC and has 4096 processors. Of course, they are different
processors than CM processors or MASPAR processors. 

-Peter Wayner
(wayner@cs.cornell.edu)

Peter Wayner   Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850
EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu    Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008
Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850  Phone: 607-277-6678