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Fleet - a radically new processor architecture
Very interesting project at Berkeley
"Fleet achieves high performance through fine grain concurrency.
Everything Fleet does is concurrent at the lowest level; programmers
who wish sequentiality must program it explicitly"
http://www.galois.com/blog/2009/06/30/fleet/
and
http://fleet.cs.berkeley.edu/docs/slides.pdf
I was reminded of Peter's "legoland" slides from the undergrad
introduction to occam...
My understanding is that part of the ongoing research is figuring out
how to program these things at a high level - do the CSP crowd have
something to offer?
Tom