R&D History of the FGCS Project 


R&D Plan and Budget 

The goals of the FGCS project were set at the frontier of computer science. 
The project period was divided into three stages, namely, the initial, intermediate 
and final stages. Detailed plans for each stage were to be made at the end of the 
previous stage, so that the plans would reflect the achievements of the previous 
stage. The research budget was to be decided depending on the achievements. 
After all, R&D has solved many difficulties with the help of many researchers 
from around world and has never ceased in making progress. 

R&D History of the Parallel Inference System 

PIM and PIMOS are now working successfully together as the fastest symbol 
processing machine. They are built on top of the various element technologies 
which have been developed and accumulated step by step in the past 10 years. 

In the initial stage, sequential inference technologies were mainly developed and 
accumulated. In the intermediate stage, we jumped from the sequential world to 
the parallel world using sequential inference technologies as the springboard. In 
the final stage, we developed software technologies for parallel inference and made 
our best effort to cultivate new applications for parallel knowledge processing. 




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