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You can add floors though. Some datacenters are 8 stories with cross-floor network fabrics.
by frollogaston 1y ago
You can add floors though. Some datacenters are 8 stories with cross-floor network fabrics.
- immibis 1y agoWhen you get to, say, 100000 stories, you can't build more stories. At this point your computer costs more than the Earth's GDP for a century, so talking about theoretical scaling laws is irrelevant. Eventually you run out of the sun's power output so you build a Dyson sphere and eventually use all of that power, anyway.
- frollogaston 1y agoOh right, so the height is practically a constant. Square root for sure then.
- LPisGood 1y agoAll algorithms are O(1) in this case
- frollogaston 1y agoYou pick what things are constant and what's variable. If you're scaling a supercomputer to fit a problem, the height is going to max out quickly and can be treated as constant, while the other dimensions are variable.