14 DAY TRIAL // Raytheon Company has developed the first computer in the world that can adjust itself to the applications it processes. By adjustment I'm referring to its architecture. The name of this new technology is not the Terminator T1000, we haven't come that far, it's called MONARCH (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture), royal name, nice choice.
This technology was developed for the Department of Defense, gosh, what a surprise, and addresses the large data volumes of sensor systems, including the requirements for signal and data processing throughput.
"In laboratory testing MONARCH outperformed the Intel quad-core Xeon chip by a factor of 10," said Michael Vahey, the principal investigator for the company's MONARCH technology.
It's smart, it performs extremely well and it's able to reconfigure itself in order to do different tasks, now, where have I heard that before? And responsible for this project is DARPA? does the name sound familiar? Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, the same people that started the Internet as we know it today, well actually, after they saw the huge potential of a world wide network linking computer systems and security systems together. The contract for the polymorphous computing architecture came from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems led the team with the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California for the creation of large-scale system on a chip and the necessary software tools.
Nick Uros, vice president for the Advanced Concepts and Technology group of Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems said: "Typically, a chip is optimally designed either for front-end signal processing or back-end control and data processing. The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it's fully programmable."