NGEN: A massively parallel reconfigurable computer for biological simulation: Towards a self-organizing computer

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1259, Issue , 1997, Pages 260-276

  McCaskill, John S ^a   Maeke, Thomas ^b   Gemm, Udo ^c   Schulte, Ludger ^a   Tangen, Uwe ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Am Faßberg ^*  (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; CIRCUIT SIMULATION; CLOCKS; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; HARDWARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

BIOLOGICAL SIMULATION; CHIP-TO-CHIP INTERCONNECT; COMPUTATIONAL BOTTLENECKS; CONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; DATA-FLOW ARCHITECTURES; EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTER;

COMPUTER HARDWARE;

EID: 0001023917     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63173-9_52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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