The STARAN architecture and its application to image processing and pattern recognition algorithms
Jerry L. Potter · afips · 1899
The ST ARAN E is a general purpose parallel computer. However, certain aspects of the STARAN E's architecture, specifically, a single instruction stream-multiple data stream organization, high speed I/O, a flip (permutation) network and a conditional operation capability on each parallel processing element, are particularly pertinent to the areas of image processing and pattern recognition. Some of the characteristics of image processing and pattern recognition which provide a good fit to the ST ARAN' s architecture are repetitiveness, spatial dependencies, complex parallel decision. making and high 110 to computation ratios. These characteristics and their corresponding STARAN E architectural accommodations are described in detail. The other aspects of ST ARAN' s architecture are described in only enough detail to provide a basis for discussion. *