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No storage? Wow! Oh... 138240 Terabytes of RAM. Ok.

• jonplackett 1y ago
  Just don’t turn it off I guess…
  • rzzzt 1y ago
    I hear Georges Leclanché is getting close to a sort of electro-chemical discovery for this conundrum.
  • rbanffy 1y ago
    At least not while it's computing something. It should be fine to turn it off after whatever results have been transferred to other computer.
  • throwaway5752 1y ago
    I feel like there is a straightforward biological analogue for this. But at in this case, one wouldn't subject to macro-scale nonlinear effects arising from the uncertainty principle when trying to "restore" the system.
• crtasm 1y ago
  >In Sandia’s case, it has taken delivery of a 24 board, 175,000 core system So a paltry 2,304 GB RAM
• SbEpUBz2 1y ago
  I am reading it wrong, or the math doesn't add up? Shouldn't it be 138240 GB not 138240 TB?
  • divbzero 1y ago
    You’re right, OP got the math wrong. It should be: 1,440 boards × 96 GB/board = 138,240 GB
    • CamperBob2 1y ago
      Either way, that doesn't exactly sound like a "storage-free" solution to me.
      • louthy 1y ago
        Just whatever you do, don't turn it off!
        • Nevermark 1y ago
          "What does this button do?" Bmmmfff. On the TRS-80 Model III, the reset button was a bright red recessed square to the right of the attached keyboard. It was irresistible to anyone who had no idea what you were doing as you worked, lost in the flow, insensitive to the presence of another human being, until... -- Then there was the Kaypro. Many of their systems had a bug, software or hardware, that would occasionally cause an unplanned reset the first time, after you turned it on, that you tried writing to the disk. Exactly the wrong moment.
          • DonHopkins 1y ago
            Oh, the Apple ][ reset button beat the TRS-80 Model III "hands down" many years earlier, with its "Big Beautiful Reset Button" on the upper right corner of the keyboard. It was comically vulnerable -- just begging to be pressed. The early models had one so soft and easy to trigger that your cat could reboot your Apple ][ with a single curious paw. Later revisions stiffened the spring a bit, but it was still a menace. There was a whole cottage industry aftermarket of defensive accessories: plastic shields that slid over the reset key, mail-order kits to reroute it through an auxiliary switch, or firmware mods to require CTRL-RESET. You’d find those in the classified ads in Nibble or Apple Orchard magazines, nestled between ASCII art of wizards and promises to triple your RAM. Because nothing says "I live dangerously" like writing your 6502 assembly in memory with the mini assembler without saving, then letting your little brother near the keyboard. I got sweet sweet revenge by writing a "Flakey Keyboard Simulator" in assembly that hooked into the keyboard input vector, that drove him bonkers by occasionally missing, mistyping, and repeating keystrokes, indistinguishable from a real flakey keyboard or drunk typist.
• Footpost 1y ago
  Well since Neuromorphic methods can show that 138240 = 0, should it come as as surprise that they enable blockchain on Mars? https://cointelegraph.com/news/neuromorphic-computing-breakthrough-enable-blockchain-mars https://cointelegraph.com/news/neuromorphic-computing-breakt...
• dekhn 1y ago
  The article hides the truth which is that it has no direct attached durable storage, but is connected via a Fabric to existing HPC hardware, which almost certainly loads data to the Spinnaker and stores results. At the end of the day, processors really just load data, process, and store back to durable data (or generate some visible side effect).