Abstract
A ternary optical computer (TOC) has many advantages compared with its electronic counterpart such as huge data bits, excellent parallelism, and reconfigurable data bit. However, traditionally, to use a TOC, the user has to get to know some details about it. This does not benefit to exert the advantages of TOCs. One of the most attractive solutions is to develop a kind of platform for routine development by shielding the underlying hardware and let the user uses a TOC just like using electronic computers without needing to understand the details of an optical system. As a preliminary attempt, we put forward the idea of how to design an application routine platform and present the implementation process of the platform. Meanwhile, we design a basic version of the application routine platform and execute a MSD parallel addition routine on it. Experiment results show that the routine platform is correct and feasible. It can mask the details about a TOC and the internal operational logic of the platform can quite exert the advantages of the TOC.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61103054 and No. 61572305).
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Ping, X., Peng, J., Ouyang, S., Shen, Y., Jin, Y. (2016). A Platform for Routine Development of Ternary Optical Computers. In: Xie, J., Chen, Z., Douglas, C., Zhang, W., Chen, Y. (eds) High Performance Computing and Applications. HPCA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9576. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32557-6_15
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