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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by austin_y on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:06PM (#15570795)
Brings to mind images of Conway's Game of Life, with computations moving about a grid of memory as they create and destroy new bits of data.
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by Someone on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:56PM (#15571686)
And that brings to mind http://www.conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=HashLife, an example (of many) of an algorithmic improvement that gives a way higher speed up than parallellizing and throwing hardware at a problem.
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by tripzilch on Saturday October 28, 2017 @01:43PM (#15575965)
Hashlife is a brilliant algorithm. For anyone not familiar (and vaguely interested in Conway's GOL), highly recommend reading up about it. I found it mildly mindblowing :)
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Re:IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ architecture w... by zardo on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:48PM (#15571623)
Or Core War.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

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