End of The Von Neumann Computing Age?

olafo writes "Three recent Forbes articles: Chipping Away, Flexible Flyers and Super-Cheap Supercomputers cite attractive alternatives to traditional Von Neumann computers and microprocessors. One even mentions we're approaching the end of the Von Neumann age and the beginning of a new Reconfigurable computing age. Are we ready?"

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The Sceptic

[The Subliminal Kid]

Oh dear this is a company with 16 people lead by a guy who is a self confessed futurist to quote the article. [i]Gilson insists his dream machine actually works. "I live in the future," he says. "Most people are pessimists who live in the present or the past." [/i] I don't know about the rest of you but I don't think that these chips, already in use in numerous single function applications (satellites) are going to be on any machine I have access to in the near future (say 10 years). It also leaves you with what a problem that everyone who's screwed around programming for to long, Ala the program which re-writes its own code, here we need software (more likely an OS) that re-writes its own hardware architecture in what becomes a very real sense. Think code compiled in real time for P4 architecture will a fraction of a second later be running on a Athlon. Never the less SGI, NASA and a few others (the NSA I suspect) are buying this but I would tend to believe that this is because they cant afford not to. I don't think anyone is crunching serious or mission critical data with these.

Re:LOOK DOWN

[Billly Gates]

No shit.