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Big machines already are more like clusters (NUMA), where access to memory outside a core's domain is much slower. I suspect compute will be more and more dispe
by nine_k 1y ago
Big machines already are more like clusters (NUMA), where access to memory outside a core's domain is much slower. I suspect compute will be more and more dispersed within RAM.
Transputers just came 30+ years too early.
- BitsAndObjects 1y agoLol, transputers getting their 5-yearly re-mention. In most of the ways that matter, Transputers weren’t too early. And if you built one again now, you’d find little to no market for it (as per efforts by several startups and various related research efforts). Sources: many conversations with the architect of Transputer, and various of the engineers that designed the hardware and Occam, and watching the Inmos 40th Anniversary lectures on YouTube (channel: @ednutting). Also being in the processor design startup space.