- author = "Frederic Gruau and Yves Lhuillier and Philippe Reitz and Olivier Temam",
- title = "{BLOB} Computing",
- booktitle = "Computing Frontiers",
- year = "2004",
- editor = "Jean-Luc Gaudiot and Vincenzo Piuri",
- pages = "125--139",
- address = "Ischia, Italy",
- month = apr # " 14-16",
- organisation = "ACM",
- publisher = "SIGMicro",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Scalable Architectures, Cellular Automata, Bio-inspiration, Distributed architectures, Programming Languages, Concurrent, distributed, and parallel languages",
- isbn13 = "1-58113-741-9/04/0004",
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URL = "
http://blob.lri.fr/",
-
URL = "
http://blob.lri.fr/publication/2004-model-blob-machine.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/977091.977111",
- size = "15 pages",
-
abstract = "Current processor and multiprocessor architectures are
almost all based on the Von Neumann paradigm. Based on
this paradigm, one can build a general-purpose computer
using very few transistors, e.g., 2250 transistors in
the first Intel 4004 microprocessor. In other terms,
the notion that on-chip space is a scarce resource is
at the root of this paradigm which trades on-chip space
for program execution time. Today, technology
considerably relaxed this space constraint. Still, few
research works question this paradigm as the most
adequate basis for high-performance computers, even
though the paradigm was not initially designed to scale
with technology and space.
we propose a different computing model, defining both an architecture and a language, that is intrinsically designed to exploit space; we then investigate the implementation issues of a computer based on this model, and we provide simulation results for small programs and a simplified architecture as a first proof of concept. Through this model, we also want to outline that revisiting some of the principles of today's computing paradigm has the potential of overcoming major limitations of current architectures.",
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notes = "CF-2004 http://www.computingfrontiers.org/2004
broken 2018 http://blob.lri.fr/publication/listeARCHITECTURE.htm Conf. avec Actes - Numero de document : 11378
Blob is a dynamic collection of particles. Particles run on regular lattice of computer processing elements (PE). Cellular encoding used for dynamic positioning",
