ron minnich wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sam Watkins <s...@nipl.net> wrote:
The "processors" (actually smaller processing units) would mostly be configured
at load time, much like an FPGA. Most units would execute a single simple
operation repeatedly on streams of data, they would not read instructions and
execute them sequentially like a normal CPU.
The data would travel through the system step by step, it would mostly not need
to be stored in RAM. If some RAM was needed, it would be small amounts on
chip, at appropriate places in the pipeline.
Some programs (not so much video encoding I think) do need a lot of RAM for
intermediate calculations, or IO for example to fetch stuff from a database.
Such systems can also be designed as networks of simple processing units
connected by data streams / pipelines.
I think we could connect them with hyperbarrier technology. Basically
we would use the Jeffreys tube, and exploit Bell's theorem and quantum
entanglement. Then we could blitz the snarf with the babble, tie it
all together with a blotz, and we're done.
ron
Sounds magical.
Can any of that approach be used to address Plan9's shortage of drivers and
such?
Bill
(Ducks and waddles away....)
;-)
