Re: Ada lacks lighterweight-than-task parallelism

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 7:41:21 PM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 23:14:17 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/18/microsoft_e2_edge_windows_10
> > 
> > As discussed in the article above, Microsoft is starting to unveil its formerly-secret development of what could be described as “Itanium done right“.
> 
> One of the casualties of the Titanic was PA-RISC, HP should resurrect and redesign PA-RISC for the 21st
> century.

HP and HPE are 2 of Microsoft's closest partners-of-allied-vision (Intel not as much nowadays), both on servers and on mobile consumer products.  I think that (despite being right on the heals of winning the multi-billion-dollar court judgement against Oracle) HPE's disinterest in continuing to board the sinking good ship Itanic occurred at precisely the same time as the rise of the secret EDGE-processor project at Microsoft.  (I need to investigate who funded the university work from which EDGE is derived.)  I think that EDGE might have HPE's post-Itanic fingerprints all over it.  We will know for certain of an HPE–Microsoft joint effort if a server version of EDGE supports technology extracted from HPE's The Machine, e.g., resistive associative RAM.

In other words, your tongue-in-cheek comment is likely what this EDGE-processor is all about for HPE, minus the PA-RISC ISA itself: a non-Intel, non-ARM, non-SPARC, non-POWER replacement to the PA-RISC/Itanium vision for servers.