American military going to make the fastest processor for
handling the large data, which frequently involves many relationships between
info sets.
Till date virtually every processor you see is based on the same basic (Von Neumann) computing model – which is 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.
This technology will highly optimize
with the HIVE (Hierarchical Identify
Verify Exploit) accesses random, 8-byte
data points from the system's global memory, crunching each of those points
individually. 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.
DARPA is spending $80 million to fund the development of
the world's first graph analytic processor. It's going to take a long time
before you see a HIVE chip in service -- DARPA and its allies are effectively
reinventing the wheel. If the concept works as promised, though, it could
quickly spot problems before they become especially dire. The military could
catch the first signs of a cyberattack,
while disease control experts could detect an imminent outbreak.
Simply speaking, massive amounts of data shouldn't be quite so intimidating --
you could just ask a computer to connect the dots.
Source - engadget.
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