[sdiy] Parallel processing clock design question

[Magnus Danielson]

From: ASSI <Stromeko at compuserve.de>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Parallel processing clock design question
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:11:02 +0200

> On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:18, Glen wrote:
> > 12,000?  With 12,000 uP chips, even the uP chips from my old Atari
> > 800 could be used to make a fast computer.
> 
> ... that could compute almost nothing of general interest. Would you 
> rather have four horses or 1024 chicken pulling your plow?

A deer... a John Deer... or any other suitable tractor.

But the 1024 chickens really seems as an interesting concept ;O)

> > Hmmm...  I what would 12,000 of the new AMD 64 bit CPU's would be
> > able to do?
> 
> For starters, they'd pull about 1MA peak current from your 1.2V supply. 
> For more details, check project "Red Storm" (Sandia Labs and Cray, 
> 10368 Opterons, <2MW for power supply).

A computer that isn't hooked up to a dedicated nuclear plant isn't worthy of
much attention ;O) Naturally DOE has the resources... ;O)

Maybe it's time to rebuild R1 again so we can have a fatter computer at the
university...

Cheers,
Magnus - who have been having a party in the uni's former reactor hall