Saturday, March 19, 2005
A Defect-Tolerant Computer Architecture: Opportunities for Nanotechnology
James R. Heath, Philip J. Kuekes, Gregory S. Snider, R. Stanley Williams
Teramac is a massively parallel experimental computer built at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to investigate a wide range of different computational architectures. This machine contains about 220,000 hardware defects, any one of which could prove fatal to a conventional computer, and yet it operated 100 times faster than a high-end single-processor workstation for some of its configurations.
Find out more at:
A Defect-Tolerant Computer Architecture: Opportunities for Nanotechnology -- Heath et al. 280 (5370): 1716 -- Science
Teramac is a massively parallel experimental computer built at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories to investigate a wide range of different computational architectures. This machine contains about 220,000 hardware defects, any one of which could prove fatal to a conventional computer, and yet it operated 100 times faster than a high-end single-processor workstation for some of its configurations.
Find out more at:
A Defect-Tolerant Computer Architecture: Opportunities for Nanotechnology -- Heath et al. 280 (5370): 1716 -- Science
