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Supercomputers 'will fit in a sugar cube', IBM says
- codedivine 16y agoWell as soon as they shrink the current ones to a cube, someone will come up with the idea of strapping a thousand of them together on a network. And the cycle continues.
- sp332 16y agoMaybe they're talking about price. I mean, a lot of today's supercomputers are just made of as many commodity processors and somewhat-specialized interconnects as fit in the budget. But in the future, you can have $50,000,000 worth of computing equipment in a 1" cube.
- 3pt14159 16y agoBut why would you need to? What is the advantage? I would rather spend 49,000,000 on one the size of 4 cubes unless you need... I dunno... Hyper-intelligent AI flying around in bumblebee sized robots.
- sp332 16y agoBecause light and other electromagnetic phenomena would take longer to travel around it, so it would be a lot slower.
- shasta 16y agoAnd what do you do when a $50M sugar cube sized processor goes out? Replace it?
- citizenkeys 16y agohippies in golden gate park already sell something similar to this.
- gcheong 16y agoflying carpets for the mind?
- btilly 16y agoReading this I have to wonder why they are using water for cooling. Rather than figuring out how to protect the electronics from the liquid, can't they find a liquid that the electronics is not harmed by? If they want speed as well as efficiency, liquid nitrogen comes to mind.
- wgrover 16y agoAnyone who's done any wirebonding will appreciate that first photo. Makes my wrist hurt just looking at it.