INTERACTION PROCESSING UNITS

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This article explores the development of computer hardware based on Interaction Nets, a computational model that represents calculations as interacting graph nodes. While current implementations like HVM show promise for parallel processing, traditional hardware isn't optimized for graph-based operations. The author proposes that custom hardware architecture could better utilize Interaction Nets' inherent parallelism and local memory access patterns, particularly benefiting algorithms with non-homogeneous parallelism like optimization problems and graph processing.