Paper Info
Title
The architecture of CASSM: A cellular system for non-numeric processing
Abstract
This paper presents the architecture of a context-addressed cellular system for non-numeric information processing, using an inexpensive, large-capacity circulating memory device. The system allows data to be represented in a structure very close to the form as the user perceives it (information structure) and allows the search operations of high level queries to be implemented directly. The information structures currently used in existing information systems are described. Then the architecture of the system as a whole is presented, as well as the implementation of these information structures as basic data types and hardware management of storage allocation and garbage collection. The paper intends to demonstrate that distributing intelligence throughout a rotating memory device can decrease the time required for search operations in large data bases. And that the search strategy and storage management functions can be efficiently carried out in hardware, greatly simplifying the software of information systems. Thus, data not only becomes faster but easier to access, verify, insert and delete.
Year
DOI
Venue
1973
10.1145/800123.803977
ISCA '73 Proceedings of the 1st annual symposium on Computer architecture
Keywords
Field
DocType
information processing,data type,register transfer level,garbage collection,design automation,information system
Information structure,Information system,Data architecture,System of record,Information processing,Computer science,Parallel computing,Automated information system,Real-time computing,Data type,Garbage collection
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
4
0163-5964
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
65
48.39
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
George P. Copeland1790394.58
G. Jack Lipovski2528293.80
Stanley Y. W. Su316221403.92