Heterogenous Computing While at IBM I (more appropriately we) originally posited this notion to one of their patent review boards and it was struck down as not being a viable patentable idea. However, within the next few months a multi-tens-o-million euro project was initiated by the European Union to do research and development on the very same […] Read
Were We Here Before (see Genes to Beans post)? As evidenced by all of the fossils, remains, anthropological evidence, and history that has been discovered and documented on life’s existence (amino acids to modern primates and what lysergic acid diethylamide could enlighten us to), there is ample evidence we have had a long path of evolution that gets me/us to the point I can […] Read
Genes to Beans (building on Cradle to Grave) We all know of the old adage “Cradle to Grave” which captures the notion of “extending throughout one’s life, from birth to death”. This also applies to other phenomena, such as a product’s life cycle, the proverbial cradle to grave which encompasses the origin of an product from it’s initial creation/instantiation through the discontinuation of […] Read
Who Wears the Smarty Pants? (Chess, Jeopardy, Go) According to popular press and marketing collateral human intelligence has been surpassed by machine (ie. “artificial”) intelligence as evidenced by machines “beating” humans at chess, Jeopardy, and Go. Let’s explore these phenomena. Deep Blue vs Kasparov With regard to IBM’s Deep Blue beating Kasparov, in the first game on (Deep Blue’s) move 44 (dependent upon […] Read
Hayden’s Law – Thorium in – Exaflops Out You heard it here first. Today’s supercomputers (and most datacenters) now use considerable power for their operation, and those supercomputers typically only run in the tens to hundreds (~130) of petaflops (varies depending on the benchmark used). They consume in the 2.2 to 17 megawatts of power to run them (as of June 2017). If […] Read