High performance analysis and control of complex systems using dynamically reconfigurable silicon and optical fiber memory

M is a highly parallel asynchronous computer for the analysis and control of complex systems. A complex system is a system with many interacting components. Examples of complex systems include applications in molecular biology, economics, and signal processing. M asynchronous computations reproduce the structural dynamics of a system using high fidelity behavioral modeling. Programs are composed of an application model, an environment model, and a distributed subsumption operating system. Processes are implemented using position independent instructions (broadcast automata) that operate in parallel on strings of binary data. All M FPGA fine grained parallel processing nodes are double buffered, asynchronous, and highly pipelined. The fiber system memory is optically multiplexed, and asynchronous. The technology will extend new gigabit ATM optical networks with integrated high performance computing services.<>