Title: A concept for massively parallel, stochastic computers. Post by: grondilu on February 15, 2013, 08:00:37 PM Quite an interesting article today in phys.org: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-self-repairing.html Extract from the PDF: « In the past century, continuous advancements in the fields of electronics and computer science have made modern computers extremely powerful computing machines. The vast majority of their architectures are loyal to the conventional von Neumann design which has now reached well over half a century in age. Unfortunately, nature is organized in an inherently different manner, without any sense of program or data memory and certainly without a sequential state machine traversing through well-defined states. In order to more efficiently model natural systems, the serial, deterministic and centralized design of conventional computers should be replaced with a parallel, stochastic and distributed architecture. » |