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> Did you read the paper that someone else posted a link to? I just read
> the first half of it. A good part of this research is focused on
> fault-tolerance/resiliency of computer systems. They're not just
> interested in creating a computer to mimic the brain, they want to learn
> how
>> > It's all about ultimate scalability. Anybody with a moderate
>> competence (certainly anyone on this
>> list) could devise a scheme to use 1000 perfect processors that never
>> fail to do 1000 quanta of work
>> in unit time. It's substantially more challenging to devise a scheme to
>> do 10
"Ellis H. Wilson III" wrote
> For instance, if Prentice's MTBF of 1 million hours is realistic (I
> personally have no idea if it is), then that's "only" 43,800 CPUs by the
> end of year 5. That's less than 5% of the total capacity - i.e. not a
> big deal if this system can truly tolerate and rou
