Blitzen (computer)
SIMD Computer System
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Blitzen was a miniaturized SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) computer system designed for NASA in the late 1980s by a team of researchers at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.[1] Blitzen was composed of a control unit and an array of single-bit processors connected in a grid topology. The machine influenced, to some extent, the design of the MasPar MP-1 computer.[2]
Potential applications of the Blitzen machine include high-speed image processing, where each processor operates on a pixel of the input image and communicates with its grid neighbors to apply image processing filters on the image.[3]
