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Virtually every processor you see is based on the same basic (Von Neumann) computing model: they're designed to access large chunks of sequential data and fill their caches as often as possible. This isn't the quickest way to accomplish every task, however, and the American military wants to explore an entirely different kind of chip. DARPA is spending $80 million to fund the development of the world's first graph analytic processor. The HIVE (Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit) accesses random, 8-byte data points from the system's global memory, crunching each of those points individually. That's a much faster approach for handling large data, which frequently involves many relationships between info sets. It's also extremely scalable, so you can use as many HIVE chips as you need to accomplish your goals.
The agency isn't alone in its work: Intel, Qualcomm and Northrop Grumman are involved, as are researchers at Georgia Tech and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Source: Engadget
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday June 13 2017, @05:30AM (2 children)
Ummm... I believe that is exactly what this is.... a "line item" crafted to justify a transfer of public funds to private entities.... in a manner so that the public funds it, but the results are private.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday June 13 2017, @02:10PM (1 child)
It would be better to run this project free of interference from the military boys. But it's much harder to get funding that way. So scare the crap out of Congress and the bureaucrats over a "CPU gap" with those Commies in China. Then work to stop the paranoid from pulling a " secrets man was not meant to know" or the contemptuous anti-science types from declaring the project a failure and another example of govt waste, or the impatient "Rome was too built in a day" from deciding progress isn't fast enough and killing and burying everything.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by anubi on Tuesday June 13 2017, @02:47PM
Trouble is when Congress hires people, they hire hand-shakers and paper-signers, and pay them more money than the wildest imagination, while the technical people who actually do this kind of stuff are collecting unemployment benefits or early retirement.
Passionate people don't seem to last long in the typical micromanaged military industrial complex environment because we seem to be hired only for our paper. No one will listen to us. Geez, just how long have we been telling the suit crowd not to mix code and data? ( embedded executables in a document? ) Tell the suit-guy your honest opinion and get to the top of the layoff list. And be told things about how to "butter up the suit-guy" and tell him what he wants to hear to remain "on the team".
It seems to come down to forced decisions between personal ethics and disobedience to authority.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]