[aakshintala]

Keep in mind this was an academic project. The project ran its course, produced many dissertations, and more importantly successful researchers and engineers, and inspired many others to look at FPGAs and dataflow. It wasn't ever meant to be about a product or building a company...

I would counter that the project was immensely successful with the stated academic goals: as proof, the Microsoft Azure AI HW division (formerly people responsible for project catapult) was almost entirely bootstrapped by many of the same people who worked on the TRIPS project.

Here's Doug Burger providing a small retrospective on the project: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/clouds-cata...

[gnufx]

I didn't necessarily mean building a product, or to put it down; I just wasn't aware of influences, and I'm close to a home of dataflow. Thanks for the background.

[aakshintala]

My apologies if I came off unnecessarily reactive.

[borramakot]

You say formerly catapult- is catapult no longer being developed?

[aakshintala]

I don't work for Microsoft or have any real knowledge here, but my understanding (from the grapevine) is that the team essentially was given a much larger purview. So in a sense Catapult is evolving?