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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by jplayer01 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @09:41AM (#20767919)
Interesting. The last I can find on the Automata Processor is from 2014, when it was supposedly being delivered to developers within weeks. And then nothing. I wonder what happened to it. Doesn't seem like it ever turned into a shipping product.
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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by JackFaker on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:14AM (#20768277)
I only heard of the university of Virginia getting some to work with. https://engineering.virginia.edu/center-automata-processing-...
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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by jplayer01 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:38AM (#20768534)
Ah, cool. Seems like the latest paper involving the AP is from 2016.
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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by rbanffy on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:55AM (#20768760)
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/wang_APoverview_... has more information
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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by jplayer01 on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:22AM (#20769089)
> This work was supported in part by the NSF (CCF-0954024, CCF-1116289, CDI-1124931, EF-1124931); Air Force (FA8750- 15-2-0075); Virginia Commonwealth Fellowship; Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the Virginia CIT CRCF program under grant no. MF14S-021-IT; by C-FAR, one of the six SRC STARnet Centers, sponsored by MARCO and DARPA; a grant from Micron Technology.

I guess the other comment wasn't too far off.

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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by rbanffy on Thursday August 22, 2019 @11:25AM (#20769125)
Not at all. The paper is still interesting though.
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Re:Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Ru... by rasz on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:24AM (#20768378)
Maybe they found one good client, a 3 letter one.
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