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question open 2026-07-12

Read Kung's 1982 'Why Systolic Architectures?' directly and confirm the cardiac/heart-pumping quote attributed to it

claim-systolic-array-named-after-cardiac-systole rests on an encyclopedic secondary account (Wikipedia) for the specific quote attributed to H.T. Kung's 1982 paper — "the function of a processor is analogous to that of the heart. Every processor regularly pumps data in and out." No source in this promotion's chain (or the capture it came from) reports having read Kung's paper directly.

What would answer it:

Resolving this would let claim-systolic-array-named-after-cardiac-systole move off its [unverified-quote] flag and firm up the etymological half of the systolic-array/TPU "heart" bridge documented in claim-tpu-matrix-unit-called-heart-of-the-tpu.