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I would imagine it'd be similar in architecture to existing supercomputers: many identical compute units connected over a network. Scaling a single rackmount co
by shadowofneptune 5y ago
I would imagine it'd be similar in architecture to existing supercomputers: many identical compute units connected over a network. Scaling a single rackmount computer design up to the size of a city would not be practical, a network would have to be included at some point to keep scaling adequately.
- rbanffy 5y agoBig computers are kind of like that - it’s just that the network is composed of ridiculously fast buses and pipes and other forms of pushing vast amounts of data. The biggest issue you’ll hit as your computer gets bigger is latency, because even light has a speed limit. You can, however, cheat, by distributing your inputs and outputs in space so that, by the time information flows to the right places, that’s where it should be. That and adding more pipes for increased bandwidth.