The Architecture of FAIM-1
Anderson, Coates, Davis, Hon, Robinson, Robison, Stevens · Computer · 1987
This article describes a symbolic multiprocessing system called FAIM-1. FAIM-1 is a highly concurrent, general-purpose, symbolic accelerator for parallel AI symbolic computation. The paramount goal of the FAIM project is to produce an architecture that can be scaled to a configuration capable of performance improvements of two to three orders of magnitude over conventional architectures. In the design of FAIM-1, prime consideration was given to programmability, performance, extensibility, fault tolerance, and the cost-effective use of technology.