Brief announcement: performance potential of an easy-to-program PRAM-on-chip prototype versus state-of-the-art processor

We compare the Paraleap FPGA computer, a 64-processor hardware prototype of the PRAM-driven XMT architecture, with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and show that Paraleap outperforms the Intel processor by up to 13.89x in terms of cycle counts. The comparison favors the Intel design, since the silicon area of an ASIC implementation of the 64-processor XMT design is the same as that of a single core.