The six project being funded by the U.S government through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency mainly seeks to create a new and unique approach towards the various computer design that will be put into use both today and tomorrow. Through the improvement of the Von Neumann architecture, it seeks to ensure that the data being used is able to directly communicate with the processor creating a situation where there exists exclusive access to the memory and the storage in the computer (Iagnemma, K.2010). The key goal of all the six projects under the agency is to ensure that the need for the motherboard is eliminated and that there exists an alternative architecture where logic can be directly communicated to the memory. One of the centers under the six DARPA projects is the Applications Driving Architectures (ADA), the center is being led and championed by a renowned University of Michigan professor, Valeria Bertago. The project under the center of ADA costs close to $35 million worth the exact amount being around $32 million in terms of grant. The center seeks to be able to simplify application development and make it easier to be able to come up with an application and to be able to make the processor and the various memory components that make up the modular to be within the same assemble as opposed to limiting the communication under the backplane bringing about a revolution in terms of the approach to the development process and application deployment (White, E.1990).

The mindset being put forward by the professor is to be able to champion for a situation where the processors are mainly made with an aim of being able to adapt and to work with the various tailored algorithms. This will enable the developers at various levels to be able to specialize to to easily adapt to the task that is at hand hence simplifying the overall development process for them. This is achieved through the ability of the new approach to be able to give a wide variety of options to the developer ranging from the processor selection to the most appropriate development environment that will make it efficient to develop an application. The various processor selection that exists for the developers to choose from include ARM, IBM, Intel, Micron, Samsung and various other processors that exist under the center that developers can be able to choose from and be able to customize them to be the most suitable for their development needs (United States. 1998).

Hence, the ADA center under the application DARPA program seeks to meet its goals which involve the simplification of the overall development process and the improvement of the efficiency of the various processor technologies that influence the application development process under. The key objective of the center is to be able to establish the best and the most effective approach that could be used on the various levels of both software and application development with a key focus on the processor environment and the memory usage of various processor technologies.

In terms of the approach and the technology that is being utilized by the center, it can be mentioned that the focus is placed on the processor design and the optimization of the data and storage in the computer. The design approach of the center on the processor involves various researches and testing carried out on the available processor technologies and how the processor can be improved in terms of its design in order to enable more memory management and quicker development process using the processor technology. In terms of the memory optimization, it can be seen that the center seeks to ensure that the developers have the best environment with all the factors optimized in such a way the resource usage and the time taken in compiling and dealing with bugs in the course of the application development process is reduced. Having to optimize the resources that are provided by the processor is important since it enables the application development process to be at its optimum in terms of the compilation time and the management of the data and the storage space in the processor.

References

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Buehler, M., Iagnemma, K., & Singh, S. (2010). The 2005 DARPA grand challenge: The great robot race. Berlin: Springer.

Purtilo, J., & White, E. L. (1990). An experimental program analysis tool for Ada. College Park, Md: University of Maryland.