On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:45:21AM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: > anyone have an url on this topic? fundamentally, I've always reasoned that > since we exist in 3d, our networks need to be a 3d lattice at scale.
Yeah, if you're working with nm^3 bits you can only directly couple to neighbor bits, whether primitive cubic or a closest packing. FWIW, maximal refresh rate is ~100 PHz for such geometries (but failure mode will be likely more plasma than corium). > fighting power (flops, comm) seems like a noble, *engineering* fight, > but fighting our existence's dimensionality is silly... It's pretty clear you have to lay down virtual traces in crystalline hardware like http://people.csail.mit.edu/nhm/cc.pdf Notice that you can get viral capsids to crystallize quite nicely, and they definitely don't want that. So you can build a hierarchical assembly that produces a macroscopic crystal, if you can do nice DNA and/or protein tertiary structure design de novo. > yes, I would like to demo your new blackhole-based interconnect! ;) What, it ain't even Friday yet? _______________________________________________ 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
