This is slightly tangential, but if you haven’t already seen it, you should check out Danny Hillis’ story of Richard Feynman working at Thinking Machines. He so

This is slightly tangential, but if you haven’t already seen it, you should check out Danny Hillis’ story of Richard Feynman working at Thinking Machines. He solved how big the buffers needed to be for the communications between processors by modeling the bit streams with partial differential equations. http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/ http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...