Sorry to kick this rotting horse but I just got back
You've got to feed in 2 hours of source material - 820Gb per stream, how?
I suppose some sort of parallel bus of wires or optic fibres.
we call that "hand waving"
If I have
massively parallel processing I would want massively parallel IO to go with it.
I.e. something like "read data starting from here" -> "here it is streaming one
megabit in parallel down the bus at 1Ghz over 1 million channels"
While riding a unicorn
would take advantage of perhaps 720 "cores" to encode a two hour video in 10
second chunks with barely any Ahmdal effects,
This 720Gbit storage device sounds pretty good.
People do this stuff every day.
Have you heard of a render-farm?
Your sarcasm is cute. Have you used a render farm ? You're right that
rendering on a few cores is CPU bound. But you've moved the goalposts by
100,000,000 orders of magnitude.
We have this comic on the wall with "programmer|compiling" replaced with
"animator|rendering"
http://xkcd.com/303/
And there's a standing order that you can't have sex unless you're
rendering.
I'm not sure why I'm wasting time writing about this, it's obvious anyway.
Yeah, that must be why everyone is rendering Imax movies in a few seconds.
We can all imagine a place where computation is instant and we just say
"computer! run Sherlock Holmes on the Holodeck from where we left off,
but this time give it a Wild West theme".
