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What will I do with massive parallel computing? Better simulations and writing non-optimized code in 1/10,000 lines of code (see Steps project at Alan Kay's Vie
by morphle 12y ago
What will I do with massive parallel computing? Better simulations and writing non-optimized code in 1/10,000 lines of code (see Steps project at Alan Kay's VieuwPoints Research Institute http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf and the steps papers at http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php ).
See the lectures on the top of our web page http://morphle.com http://morphle.com for some demo's by Alan Kay)
Since 2008 we at MetaMorph research institute are seriously attempting to build a single Wafer Scale Integration (WSI) with up to 800,000 cores (at 14nm) called SiliconSqueak that is a bytecode machine (like the B5500) running Squeak. In 2015 we sell 10, 60 and 300 core prototypes on an FPGA.
The final WSI will cost around $6000 and a 5000 core version (at 90nm) would cost around $500. We will need around 1500 people to buy it to become profitable.
You could cut it up into chips costing around $1 each.
The main effort is writing software for it. For example a Lisp bytecode machine, a port of the RoarVM and a version of OpenCroquet needs to be enhanced for it. However, running Linux on it would be pointless, it needs a new type of operating system based on its hardware based message passing.
You can also use it as an openflow switch with 100 50 Gbps optical links or as a RamCloud with half a terabyte of 3D memory. It is done in our startup that still needs two extra co-founders. a scientific paper will be released by our research group in a few months on the WSI.