{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"ZMOB: A New Conputing Engine for AI","authors":[{"name":"Chuck Rieger","slug":"chuck-rieger","given":"Chuck","family":"Rieger","affiliation":""},{"name":"Randall H. Trigg","slug":"randall-h-trigg","given":"Randall H.","family":"Trigg","affiliation":""},{"name":"Bob Bane","slug":"bob-bane","given":"Bob","family":"Bane","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"A new research multiprocessor named ZMOB is described, and its si~nificance to AI research is surveyed and character1zed. ZMOB, under current construction and scheduled for completion late Fall 1981 is a 256 processor machine with a high speed interprocessor communications system called the \"cqnveyor belt\", a non-blocking, 20 megabyte/second message switcher. Because of its large number of processors, high computational throughput (100 million ins~ructions/ s ecl, lar Ge cumulative high speed memor.y {16 megabytes , high interprocessor communications bandwidt , and external communications and sensing channels, ZMOB opens some new areas of exploration in objectoriented modeling, knowledge-based and domain expert systems, intelligent sensin6 and robotics, ana distributed perceptual and cogn1tive modeling. The paper attempts to blend a description of ZMOB'e hardware with ideas about where and how it fits into various types of AI research.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/182","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0182.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/182.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/182","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Hardware","track":"Hardware","number":182,"pages":{"first":955,"last":959},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}