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Prototype Motherboard Clusters Self-Coordinating Modules

Posted by timothy on from the your-mother's-so-modular-she-broke-up-with-herself dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A group of hardware hackers has created a motherboard prototype that uses separate modules, each of which has its own processor, memory and storage. Each square cell in this design serves as a mini-motherboard and network node; the cells can allocate power and decide to accept or reject incoming transmissions and programs independently. Together, they form a networked cluster with significantly greater power than the individual modules. The design, called the Illuminato X Machina, is vastly different from the separate processor, memory and storage components that govern computers today."

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  1. Re:Rob Malda has a tiny weiner by spazdor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, we know. We're Slashdot users.

    But how would YOU know, AC? Unless you'd been through the Initiation ritual as one of us!

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  2. Re:So? by b4upoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    More power! More! I want more.I want to be God! But if I can be God I promise to be a very nice God. Just give me that new PC!