From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Mon Aug 15 2005 - 13:50:11 MDT
Hi Richard,
I am very interested in the issues that StarBridge was/is trying to
address... I thought a long time ago that StarBridge's hardware might be
useful for my Novamente AI project (www.agiri.org), but, when I contacted
StarBridge I realized that their tech was not ready (as well as being
insanely expensive) so I figured I'd wait for the hardware poeple to solve
all their problems...
Regarding the lateral thinking the software industry needs to do --- if I
were given a working machine like the StarBridge machine, then I could
figure out how to port significant portions of the Novamente architecture to
it. I don't think that will be a major problem. For instance, our
evolutionary-procedure-learning component would really rock on this sort of
hardware --- and totally reimplementing that one component for a special
hardware platform wouldn't be all that much work; much less than
reimplementing the whole Novamente system...
-- Ben
> As I said above, this has the potential to be relevant to SL4 because a
> reconfigurable supercomputer of this sort is urgently needed by the AI
> community. The hardware problems (heat) may soon be solvable, with
> radically new FPGA technologies that are over the horizon, and with the
> right kind of internal design it might be possible to understand and
> program the cells reliably. And meanwhile, the software engineering
> community would have to do some lateral thinking on the issues involved
> in real-world parallel programming.
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> You will all have to let me know if any of the issues mentioned in that
> last paragraph are relevant to the SL4 list. Looks like no, from what I
> see.
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> Richard Loosemore
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