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I wonder if that was a translation to PR artifact, or if there might be something there to accelerate some of the Java or .Net memory access patterns that we all use.
Can't wait for this publicly funded research to make some private corporation billions!
What? Not so good idea anymore? It's funny how ironic and shortsighted these HN commies are.
Can't wait for this publicly funded research to make some private corporation billions!
You mean like the internet? Or self driving cars?
As they collect more data related to this, they'll need better ways to traverse these graphs.
Can't wait for this publicly funded research to make some private corporation billions!
Not sure if sarcastic or sincere. You can damn near predict what will be the future tech 10 years down the line based on what DARPA is doing to make killing more efficient.
Sounds a lot like the Cell in concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
The SPUs are still designed for sequential processing of memory, just smaller, discrete blocks. The whole chip is orchestrated by a standard von Neumann processor anyway, so that acts as a bottleneck to keeping the SPUs busy.
Is it just me or is the illustration of 'graphs' of totally the wrong kind of graphs? I'm sure they don't mean bar charts.
What does the memory interface look like for this? None of the papers I can find indicate how you can get so much parallelism out of the CPU memory interface. An interesting approach to non-Von Neumann computing is to put ALUs in memory, to take advantage of the fact that DRAMs have far more internal bandwidth than what is exposed in traditional systems: http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-leejinho/tvlsi...…
Manufacturing logic on the same wafer as DRAM is difficult since the processes are so different. On the other hand, manufacturing on separate dies and connecting with an interposer or TSVs gets you tremendous bandwidth and relatively low latency; this is how some newer generation graphics memory is implemented (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory ).
Can't wait for this publicly funded research to make some private corporation billions!
If it annoys you that much, stop using internet, throw away your laptop and pretty much everything else in your life. No need to support these "evil private corporations". Yeah, really. I'm sure you can do it. What? Not so good idea anymore? It's funny how ironic and shortsighted these HN commies are.
The hilarious part is that you don't appear to be complaining about the government funding of research part.