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This reminds me a lot of Seymour Cray's two maxims of supercomputing: get the data where it needs to be when it needs to be there, and get the heat out. Still s
by smj-edison 1y ago
This reminds me a lot of Seymour Cray's two maxims of supercomputing: get the data where it needs to be when it needs to be there, and get the heat out. Still seems to apply today!
- CamperBob2 1y agoCalls to mind his other famous quote, "Would you rather plow your field with two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" How about ten billion chickens?
- smj-edison 1y agoYeah. I feel like he's still partially vindicated with things like the dragonfly topology, as a lot of problems don't nicely map onto a 2D or 3D topology (so longest distance is still the limiting factor). But the chicken approach certainly scales better, and I feel like since Cray's time there are more local-aware algorithms around.