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What are some of the good papers?

• greglindahl 13y ago
  PIMs are outside my field, but Wikipedia looks like a reasonable start (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor-in-memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor-in-memory).
  • Someone 13y ago
    I don't have a better one handy, but this definitely is a Wikipedia entry where "This article needs additional citations for verification." is more than true. For example: "In the 1980s, a tiny CPU that executed FORTH was fabricated into a DRAM chip to improve PUSH and POP. FORTH is a Stack-oriented programming language and this improved its efficiency." I would love to see a reference there. Anybody know one? If it only had pop and push, I wouldn't call it a processor in memory. I wouldn't say the MuP21 (http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21.html#p21 http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21.html#p21) or F21 (http://www.ultratechnology.com/f21cpu.html http://www.ultratechnology.com/f21cpu.html) had a processor in memory, either. Aside: I Googled for this (mythical?) CPU and did not find it, but I did find the next hot thing in agile programming: "Initially OKAD was implemented as the only application program in OK and was an experiment in sourceless programming. The structure of the programs looks like Forth code, but there was no Forth compiler or interpreter except Chuck himself. He entered the kernel of OK using a debugger and built the tools he need to build the rest of OK and OKAD" (http://www.ultratechnology.com/okad.htm http://www.ultratechnology.com/okad.htm) Somebody should start a project where your system runs compiled Forth code, and the only way to backup the system is through a command that retrieve a set of functions from another running system ("please replace the 'BEEP' function with the one on the system at this IP address")
    • mud_dauber 13y ago
      Harris Semiconductor attempted to intro the "RTX" microncontroller in the late 1980s. It featured a true Forth-based instruction set. RTX never caught traction due (IMO) to the lack of developer tools; the group was discontinued in ~1989.
      • Someone 13y ago
        If you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX2010, that's nothing like what this describes. It's just a CPU with two hardware stacks (one more than the 6502 had). There's plenty of alternatives for Forth hardware, especially if you are willing to use a FOGA. What this describes is more like Moore's GreenArray hardware, but with way more, less powerful chips (if it were DRAM-like, a major difference would be that you would be able to address all those CPUs from the outside, not just a few, like in the GreenArray chips)
• troymc 13y ago
  If you do a search for "Cellular Automata Machines" on Google Scholar, you'll have a good start. The idea of cellular automata was first developed by von Neumann and his colleagues back in the 1940s.
  • darkmighty 13y ago
    Do you know what's being talked about here? It's state machines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton), not cellular automata
    • marcosdumay 13y ago
      Cellular automata is what you get when you use automata as cells in a network. Just like at the presentation.
• wsxcde 13y ago
  This (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=375174 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...) is one of the classic papers on PIMs.
  • crb002 13y ago
    You should reach out to the IPDPS 2014 program committee and see this reference gets added.