On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 02:20:40PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:53:14PM -0800, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > Inevitably, though, massively parallel interconnects (all boxes connected > > to all other boxes) won't scale. > > You can soup up a local 3d torus with a small network
s/small network/small world network > like connectivity. That keeps the the node connectivity > and number of wires still manageable. > > Moreover, the universe does it with local connectivity > (even quantum entanglement needss a relativistic channel > to tell it from RNG) just fine. A 3d grid/torus would > be a good match for anything that can do long-range > by iterating short-range interactions. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
