APE MACHINE A NOVEL STOCHASTIC COMPUTER BASED ON A SET OF AUTONOMOUS PROCESSING ELEMENTS

摘要

The APE Machine- is a real-time computer with features such as reconfigureable struc¬ture, incrementable computing power and certain fault tolerant capabilities. This highly flexible computer is dubbed APE Machine because its basic building blocks are a set of Autonomous Processing Elements known as APEs. Each APE is a small processor in its own right. However, many APEs can be grouped together to form a more power-ful processing unit. The APE Machine contains a set of sensors to perform input data acquisition and also a program control unit.