Group:  Dan Bentley
Project Proposal:
I want to examine stream architectures through cellular automata.  I 
believe that they provide a useful example of what applications for the SSS 
will look like.  Specifically, I plan to:
1) Implement a simple implementation of the Game of Life in Brook
2) Implement the game using more complex code
3) Using this infrastructure, implement other cellular automata, including 
ones which have an irregular grid structure.
4) Solve the general problem of irregular grids on the SSS in terms of 
language and/or architecture.

All of these are milestones.  4 may not be completed.
Why this is useful:
1) (statement with which Professor Dally might disagree/not be interested 
in) I think that certain applications can be recast into the stream model 
easily, and may even be more natural in this model.
2) Documentation.  I would document this process and, if wanted, write up 
an introduction to the general idea of the modeling computation.  For 
instance, C and Unix might be just other obscure ideas if not for the 
excellent documentation of Brian Kernighan to explain the Zen-Buddhist 
nature of these revolutionary ideas.
3) Simplicity.  Cellular Automata are similar to problems being considered 
because they are iterative, and have communication on each iteration 
between some set of linked elements.  However, the processing is simple 
enough that the numerical calculation will not get in the way of the 
understanding.  Thus, it would be an ideal first stream application.
4) Optimization.  Cellular automata are hard to optimize because they do so 
little computation.  It is, then, a worst-case approximation of the 
problems being considered.  If one can optimize cellular automata, one can 
optimize anything.  Thus, it can be a useful benchmark.
In short, Streaming architectures are blazingly fast, but also intriguing 
ways of considering problems.  I'd like to emphasize the latter because I'm 
not as good at the fast part.
-Dan