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From: farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Optical Computing (Not optical communications)
Message-ID: <2064@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Tue, 28-Apr-87 02:53:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 28 02:53:15 1987
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In article <2063@hoptoad.uucp> farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren) writes:
>Also, several efforts are underway to manufacture more generalized
>array processors with electro-optics.  One that I know about was set
>up to multiply a rather large pair of matrices (I forget just how
>large, but on the order of 1K X 1K) in 50ns.  The potential for
>serious number-crunchers is immense.
>

Whoops!  Not quite that big - my brain wasn't working well when I posted the
preceding...   I don't remember how big, but I do know that a lab prototype
setup was actually doing 32 X 32 matrices in the same 50ns.  Much bigger
stuff was in the works.



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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"