interconnect

I think the web (www) won't change much at all, but that doesn't mean the way we interconnect with others won't.

The array interconnect and circuitry consume most energy and a different memory technology won't change that.

He took a bunch of really minimal stack-based processors, added local interconnect, and called it good.

The onboard memory and interconnect meant no huge slowdown for going through PCI bottleneck.

This is because 50% of the cost of the machine was the interconnect, and if they let those codes run, it means they wasted budget and will get less next time.

For simulation problems where each iteration of an algorithm depends on calculated world state from the previous iterations, then interconnect speed is all.

Mostly non embarrassingly parallel problems, where its high speed interconnect pays off.

Maybe for embarrassingly parallel tasks, but if you require nontrivial interprocess communication, a server farm can't compete with the interconnect of a modern supercomputer.

The other problem is that their interconnect is relatively fragile.

The various sort of stacked memory coming into commercial use have the potential to reduce interconnect power and potentially make active RAM power at least slightly relevant.

Does it interconnect with the rest of the engine?

The CM needed 1-2 top notch analog engineers there were wires in the interconnect that had to hit each of the processor chips, which could be as many as 65,536.

You say "awesome high bandwidth" but at 1 Gbit/s per node you're still a long way from an InfiniBand 4X FDR Interconnect (54 Gbit/s and sub-microsecond latency, significantly lower than your network ).

Well as a "circuit switched bigot" Vint must have left me off the mailing list:-) I used to to do OSI international interconnect support an testing for my sins many moons ago.

All LTE, all the time.) Regarding my limits - the nice things about Tier-1 ISPs (which Comcast is) - is that they don't pay for data use, as they engage in what is called "Settlement Free Peering" - what they do pay for is (roughly) Trenches + Vaults + Data Center Real Estate + Power + cooling + security + Chassis + Fiber + Interconnect Ports + Line-Cards.