Stream Processing Considerations
Available documentation on Stream processing is very scarce as of this writing (September 12, 2005). Only a few specialized institutions seem to have understood the implied power of the model. Stanford University has been historically involved in a variety of projects on this, beginning from the Stanford Shading language and deploying a flexible, stand-alone stream processor called Imagine. Both those projects revealed the paradigm has a great potential so a much larger scale project has been started. With the name of Merrimac, a Stream-based supercomputer is now being researched. AT&T also recognized the wide adoption of stream-enhanced processors as GPUs rapidly evolved in both speed and functionality.
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