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You buy a motherboard with the number of GPUs you want on it. Or maybe they could devise some sort of stacking system, with each GPU board separate and stacked

• DaiPlusPlus 4y ago
  > Or maybe they could devise some sort of stacking system, with each GPU board separate and stacked. Yeah, I remember those stackable/modular computer concepts that industrial-design students loved to put in their portfolios from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s; I get the concept: component/modular PCs are kinda like the modular hi-fi systems of the 1980s, except those design students consistently failed to consider how coordinated aesthetics are the first thing to go out the window when the biz-dev people need the hardware folks to save costs or integrate with a third-party, etc. ...it feels like a rare miracle that at least we have 19-inch racks to fall-back on, but those are hardly beautiful (except the datacenter cable-porn, of course): https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/gioqrp/soviet_modular_computer_system_1986/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/gioqrp/sovie... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_%28home_automation_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_%28home_automation_syst...