METHOD FOR OPERATING A PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEM AND RELATED APPARATUS

Patent №

US 4,965,882

Granted

1990-10-23

Filed 1987

Owner

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, A CORP. OF MASSACHUSETTS

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07103364

A method for operating a parallel processor system implements a beta-partitioning algorithm. According to that method, groups of working memory elements are identified which satisfy each of the conditions of all of several production rules. Then, sequences of sets are formed each corresponding to one of the production rules. The sets represent combinations of working memory elements which satisfy some or all of the conditions for the corresponding production rule. At some point during the formation of sets, the sets are subdivided into relatively equal-size subsets, each of which is assigned to a different processor. Each processor, which previously had been performing the same operations as the other processors, continues processing only its assigned subset.

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Planning0.77
Knowledge representation0.36
Vision0.16
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, A CORP. OF MASSACHUSETTS

assignment · 48280652

Assignors

YERAZUNIS, WILLIAM, S.,, BARABASH, WILLIAM, YERAZUNIS, WILLIAM S.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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