Distributed Virtual Machines Implemented in FPGAs

Recent work has shown how expressions in a functional programming language can be compiled 
into an asynchronous spatial computation.  This asynchronous spatial computation is comprised 
of bytecodes reified as actors undergoing diffusion.   We are designing a physical substrate 
for hosting distributed virtual machines in FPGA hardware.  We demonstrate preliminary results 
showing diffusion of bytecodes based on a cellular automata implementation of a pseudo random 
number generator at each site.