Star Bridge unveils HAL

Company representatives said they believe the reconfigurable technology behind these systems represents a full-scale paradigm shift in the way computers work. They also said that with this new technology many products with a chip inside -- not just supercomputers -- may one day be much faster, smaller, cheaper and more functional than products operating with conventional technology.

Explaining Hypercomputing to those present at the demonstration, Mr. Gilson compared Hypercomputing with conventional computing technology. He said, "The circuitry of conventional processors is hardwired for a single application at the factory and cannot be rewired thereafter. Our Hypercomputing technology re-programs -- or reconfigures -- the programmable chips in our hardware system many times each second to make optimal use of all available compute resources, thus overcoming a number of obstacles to solving data processing problems, including highly complex algorithmic problems, raised by the circuitry and system architecture of conventional computer systems."

The HAL-300 operates on the company's Viva software platform, which is written in IIADL, a novel programming language invented to program the Hypercomputer. Viva is a novel system-design-level compiler that has been invented to compile IIADL descriptions into instructions that program or reconfigure the Hypercomputer to implement a processing architecture.

Company president, Alfred J. DiMora, said, "With Viva our Hypercomputers can be programmed or reconfigured to exhibit any of the many different processing architectures. Different processing architectures, for example, may be selected to process different algorithms, allowing multiple problems or multiple portions of problems to be processed simultaneously. We call this Architecture-on-Demand(TM). We believe the ability to arbitrarily reconfigure a system to implement different superspecific architectures that implement different algorithms that describe different problems results in a superfast system that is also highly flexible in the processing it can handle."

DiMora continued, "These features represent breakthroughs in computer technology rivaling any other breakthroughs of the computer era. We believe we have literally re-invented the computer. We believe that any chip-based product using our Pensa processors, IIADL programming language and Viva compiler -- products as diverse as kitchen appliances, consumer electronics, personal computers and supercomputers -- will be faster, smaller, less expensive and more versatile than similar products using traditional technology."