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During six-plus decades of adherence to the Turing paradigm, the computer field has reaped the benefits of ever- faster and -denser (and -more reliable) hardware. Over the same span of decades, the creation and maintenance of software hasn't gotten any easier and remains problematic, especially in matters of implementation, integration, and system safety.
Computation, as a technique that was formulated to solve cryptography via instruction-dominated symbol-swapping, may not be the most appropriate means of monitoring and controlling real-world physical processes, yet that’s what 98% of the billions of microprocessors and their derivatives fabricated each year are made to do.
The tangled threads of linear-sequential operation tend to inhibit each other and may cause faulty operation. After these decades of experience, hasn’t a better way been developed? Even the "massively parallel" solutions are processors that have been slaved to operate in lock-step, but they are each linear-sequential systems at their cores: shared-resource hardware arranged to manage data in spatial memory addresses via step-by-step software instructions.
We can do better with an alternate technology but if we could, who would be its champion?
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Computation, as a technique that was formulated to solve cryptography via instruction-dominated symbol-swapping, may not be the most appropriate means of monitoring and controlling real-world physical processes, yet that’s what 98% of the billions of microprocessors and their derivatives fabricated each year are made to do.
The tangled threads of linear-sequential operation tend to inhibit each other and may cause faulty operation. After these decades of experience, hasn’t a better way been developed? Even the "massively parallel" solutions are processors that have been slaved to operate in lock-step, but they are each linear-sequential systems at their cores: shared-resource hardware arranged to manage data in spatial memory addresses via step-by-step software instructions.
We can do better with an alternate technology but if we could, who would be its champion?
[email protected]