The Massive Memory Machine Project

该项目旨在研究具有数百亿字节的海量物理内存的超级计算机。这项研究的假设是，这类机器可能会从根本上改变解决某些类别问题的方式，并可能导致性能提高数量级。目前正在努力从实验上验证大规模记忆假说，探索未来建造这样一台机器的方法，并研究为这种设计选择的算法过程。该项目的验证部分将在一台大内存计算机(LMC)上进行，这是一种具有非常规但经济上可行的内存量(128或256MB)的常规计算机。该项目的第二部分将涉及研究一些用于具有数十亿字节内存的机器的新型体系结构。将建造一个能够支持数十亿字节内存的全尺寸海量内存机原型。

This project is directed at the investigation of supercomputers with massive amounts of physical memory, in the tens of billions of bytes. The hypothesis of the research is that such machines may change, in fundamental ways, how certain classes of problems are solved and may lead to orders of magnitude performance improvements. Efforts are underway to validate experimentally the massive memory hypothesis, to explore ways to build such a machine in the future, and to investigate selected algorithmic processes for such designs. The validation portion of the project will be carried out on a Large Memory Computer (LMC), a conventional computer with an unconventional but economically feasible amount of memory (either 128 or 256 MB). The second part of the project will involve the study of a number of novel architectures for machines with billions of bytes of memory. A full-scale Massive Memory Machine prototype capable of supporting billions of bytes of memory will be constructed.