The Massive Memory Machine Project

该项目旨在研究超级计算机， 大量的物理内存，在数百亿字节。 这项研究的假设是，这种机器可能会改变， 基本方法，某些类别的问题是如何解决的， 导致数量级的性能改进。 努力 正在进行的实验验证大容量记忆假说， 探索在未来建造这样一台机器的方法，并调查 为这种设计选择的算法过程。 验证 该项目的一部分将在大容量计算机上进行 (LMC)，一台传统的计算机， 内存容量（128或256 MB）。 的第二部分 该项目将包括对一些新颖建筑的研究 对于拥有数十亿字节内存的机器来说。 一个完整的大规模 存储器机器原型能够支持数十亿字节的 记忆将被构建。

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.