Darpa Funds Development of New Type of Processor

Post by dnautics » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

angstrom wrote: post #22

bantunes wrote: post #14

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.

Post by convolvatron » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 3:56 PM UTC

phkahler wrote: post #24

kevinnk wrote: post #9

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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 ).

But logic and SRAM are more compatible. I'm still curious because multiple processors having random access to a large memory is not easy. The scratchpad they mention sounds like a cache, but maybe it's something more than that.

Post by kingraoul3 » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 4:08 PM UTC

KekDemaga wrote: post #47

angstrom wrote: post #42

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That's just a formality. The implementation is trivial and left to the reader of any good DARPA project as an exercise.

Killing the wrong people isn't DARPA's problem, we have bombs that we can drop out of a plane and down a chimney. Blame the elected officials that ordered the bomb dropped in the first place and the intelligence apparatus that convinced them it was good idea.

Post by warkdarrior » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

nickpsecurity wrote: post #69

losteric wrote: post #61

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Versus, what? No public funding? No private utilization of public research? Public research should fall in the public domain, free of IP and open for any use. If anything, we should be doing more of this... create dedicated academic R&D funding streams by taxing established or dying industries in order to publicly explore new fields, and use X Prize-style programs or NASA's COTS/CRS programs to incentivize private co…

"Versus, what? No public funding? No private utilization of public research?" Versus the taxpayer-funded I.P. being licensed to all parties in the country that funded it with the big corporations being forced to compete on better implementations delivered faster to customers. Big players can try to make billions, small players can innovate on top of same I.P. without a lawsuit, and individuals can even attempt to hom…

Post by warkdarrior » Fri, Jun 09, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

chrisallenlane wrote: post #67

exelius wrote: post #48

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No way; this is the kind of thing that can become a state-secret level advantage. Seriously, it's a graph processor. Graph analysis is basically the entire job of a modern intelligence agency. There's a cold-war level arms race going on in cybersecurity. Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election -- they were able to infiltrate both campaigns AND the FBI (they used fal…

> Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the unclassified information, all I've heard mentioned is: 1. social media manipulation 2. traditional media manipulation (RT) 3. email spearphishing None of the above strikes me as particularly sophisticated, even if it's potentially effective. (I don't know if i…