So that’s why, if one of them locks up or freezes, your whole computer can crash because it’s not actually doing things in parallel.
What utter BS. Does this guy know nothing about privilege levels [1]? or anything about operating system and processor development from the past 20 years?
It's a lie (intentional or not), and one that does the author a disservice by (a) making him look like a fool to his peers, and (b) obfuscating the actual benefits of his computing model (which, from the paper, look to have more to do increasing performance of certain parallel algorithms rather than fault-tolerance).
This article makes it sounds like he is applying a microkernel with user space modules to multi-processor systems.
New scientist article on this has better info. Data and instructions are packaged together, are passed around, and executed with a pseudo-random timer offsetting a unit of work to avoid a single thread over consuming resources. They also want to apply machine learning to have certain error conditions self repair through auto code manipulation.
He has written other relevant stuff, but publicly available full-text versions are hard to find. For those who want to search, the key phrase seems to be "systemic computation".
And just in case it isn't clear: this is front-line research. There is no product to get the technical specs of.
Whenever I hear about something like this (eg, 'the uncrashable computer' or the 'indestructible drinking glass') it begs the question - what about one of the greatest misnomers of all? The Unsinkable Ship, her royal majesty's Titanic
What utter BS. Does this guy know nothing about privilege levels [1]? or anything about operating system and processor development from the past 20 years?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privilege_level