It is probably considerably cheaper as well, GPU based 'supercomputers'(Can we please stop calling them that? Can we just say, "Computers we'll all carry around in ten years?") aren't a whole lot more than SLI that gamers have been using for decades, the parts are pretty cheap. The Tesla website claims it is 1/100th the cost of a traditional supercomputer, which might only really become true over the lifetime of the machine because of the lower power requirements. Of course that is also assuming that your problem is a good fit for a Tesla system.
Van Eck according to wikipedia: "Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT and LCD display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions" So basically screen looking on Halo is Van Eck Phreaking. You are all doing it as you read this comment unless you printed it out.
What happens when you get three or more tubes close together? Does it make a solid or hollow shape?
What about pulsing the current? Could we get a blob of water to float in place, slowly sink down with every pulse, or just fall to the ground?
Whoever said we should be 2^8.6 times faster failed to read the whole line. It said by 2020 it could fit the same amount of transistors in 4% of the space. So even if for whatever reason this technology wouldn't benefit from other advances in chip speed(like Die Shrinks) the difference wouldn't be that much.
It will be interesting how other companies use this and how HP decides to license it.
Don't we already have these? Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers have been around for a while.
The only difference here is they run a cable to the mainland to supply power, again nothing new.
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It is probably considerably cheaper as well, GPU based 'supercomputers'(Can we please stop calling them that? Can we just say, "Computers we'll all carry around in ten years?") aren't a whole lot more than SLI that gamers have been using for decades, the parts are pretty cheap. The Tesla website claims it is 1/100th the cost of a traditional supercomputer, which might only really become true over the lifetime of the machine because of the lower power requirements. Of course that is also assuming that your problem is a good fit for a Tesla system.
Van Eck according to wikipedia: "Van Eck phreaking is the process of eavesdropping on the contents of a CRT and LCD display by detecting its electromagnetic emissions" So basically screen looking on Halo is Van Eck Phreaking. You are all doing it as you read this comment unless you printed it out.
That's it! I'm making all of my comments ascii art from now on!
What happens when you get three or more tubes close together? Does it make a solid or hollow shape? What about pulsing the current? Could we get a blob of water to float in place, slowly sink down with every pulse, or just fall to the ground?
Whoever said we should be 2^8.6 times faster failed to read the whole line. It said by 2020 it could fit the same amount of transistors in 4% of the space. So even if for whatever reason this technology wouldn't benefit from other advances in chip speed(like Die Shrinks) the difference wouldn't be that much. It will be interesting how other companies use this and how HP decides to license it.
Don't we already have these? Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers have been around for a while. The only difference here is they run a cable to the mainland to supply power, again nothing new.