This sounds really, really, really freaking cool. I am overjoyed to see AMD not throwing in the towel and conceding the entire high-end CPU market to Intel. A monopoly there would threaten Moore's law.
I can think of a lot of cool things to do with hUMA. I might have to get one and dust off my once very strong interest in evolutionary computation (strongly biomorphic genetic algorithms, artificial life, etc.). EC can do very interesting things -- its the only "AI" technique I am aware of that can be genuinely creative -- but it eats CPU cycles for breakfast.
It would also be great for creating a practical fully homomorphic cryptosystem based virtual machine for "blind cloud computing"-- where the VM host has no idea what the VM is doing. All kinds of neato stuff is waiting on this kind of computing platform to be practical.
I can think of a lot of cool things to do with hUMA. I might have to get one and dust off my once very strong interest in evolutionary computation (strongly biomorphic genetic algorithms, artificial life, etc.). EC can do very interesting things -- its the only "AI" technique I am aware of that can be genuinely creative -- but it eats CPU cycles for breakfast.
It would also be great for creating a practical fully homomorphic cryptosystem based virtual machine for "blind cloud computing"-- where the VM host has no idea what the VM is doing. All kinds of neato stuff is waiting on this kind of computing platform to be practical.