Micron Announces Automata Parallel Processing Architecture

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Last week at SC13, Micron Technology announced a new computing architecture capable of performing high-speed, comprehensive search and analysis of complex, unstructured data streams. Micron’s Automata Processor (AP) is an accelerator that leverages the intrinsic parallelism of memory and aims to dramatically advance computing capabilities in areas such as bioinformatics, video/image analytics, and network security which pose challenges for conventional processor architectures because of the amount of complex, unstructured data.

The Automata Processor is a breakthrough technology that is designed to use advanced memory-based processing to solve complex computing challenges that existing solutions are not able to tackle effectively,” said Chirag Dekate, IDC Research Manager, HPC. “This technology has the potential to solve some of the world’s most complicated data-intensive challenges, including real-time security that could dramatically affect anti-terrorism efforts, or the highly efficient analysis of complex plant genomes that could allow scientists to rapidly advance their research agendas beyond what is possible today.”

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