Research > Applications
We selected applications to drive our research and provide concrete goals and metrics to evaluate progress, both in performance (can they run as quickly as desired, e.g. in real-time, or scaling with the number of cores?) and in productivity (can they be programmed easily by non-experts?). Each application was selected based on the following five criteria: 1) Compelling in terms of likely market or social impact, with short term feasibility and longer term potential. 2) Requires a significant speed-up or a smaller, more efficient platform to work as intended. 3) A committed expert application partner will help design, use, and evaluate our technology. 4) Enables technology for other applications. 5) Taken together, the applications should cover the possible platforms (handheld, desktop, games) and markets (consumer, business, health) likely to dominate usage. We will periodically reevaluate and adjust our application set to make sure we meet these criteria.