DIY 1980s "Non-Von" Supercomputer

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 20, 2009 @03:15AM from the try-this-at-home dept.

Brietech writes "Ever wanted to own your own supercomputer? This guy recreated a 31-processor SIMD supercomputer from the early 1980s called the 'Non-Von 1' in an FPGA. It uses a 'Non-Von Neumann' architecture, and was intended for extremely fast database searches and artificial intelligence applications. Full-scale models were intended to have more than a million processors. It's a cool project for those interested in 'alternative' computer architectures, and yes, full source code (Verilog) is available, along with a python library to program it with." Hope the WIPO patent has expired.

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Re:And the point is by amori · 2009-02-20 05:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

What else do you imagine ? I'm guessing you have one heightened sense of imagination, which I would probably associate with a gun totting Republican, who also happens to be a linux fanboy, and wishes to bring Linux into a subject that has nothing to do with it.