In this paper I describe and extend a new DNA computing paradigm introduced in Blumberg for building massively parallel machines in the DNA-computing models described by Adelman, Cai et. al., and Liu et. al. Employing only DNA operations which have been reported as successfully performed, I present an implementation of a Connection Machine, a SIMD (single-instruction multiple-data) parallel computer as an illustration of how to apply this approach to building computers in this domain (and as an implicit demonstration of PRAM equivalence). This is followed with a description of how to implement a MIMD (multiple-instruction multiple-data) parallel machine. The implementations described herein differ most from existing models in that they employ explicit communication between processing elements (and hence strands of DNA).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/5941 |
| Date | 01 December 1996 |
| Creators | Blumberg, Andrew Justin |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 16 p., 398560 bytes, 223460 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-1589 |
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