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There is a great video where Danny Hillis describes their thinking behind the design of the CM-2, and how it influenced the design of the then still in developm
by michelpp 3y ago
There is a great video where Danny Hillis describes their thinking behind the design of the CM-2, and how it influenced the design of the then still in development CM-5.
What's crazy is when he talked about "bits in the machine" that are not stored in RAM, but are stored in wires "in flight" across the room sized machine with one big synchronous clock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-swPZTeX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua-swPZTeX4
- mk_stjames 3y agoI've seen this before, long ago, and it was fun to revisit it. He talks about how they are working on Teraflop-scale machines in their near future, and a Tflop-capable CM5 would take up 'about the size of this room'. In reality, the CM5/1024 only hit 131 gigaflops, and even that was enough to be the top of the TOP500 list at the time. Wild that I have something capable of 35+ teraflops of FP32 sitting right here on my desk now.