I may be ignorant but after reading the two articles it seems to me that there is no real breakthrough. It all boils down to new routing algorithms.
I think that the basic problem has been that single-layer routing algorithms have a decent time complexity (O(N^2) I think), while multi-layer routing algorithms have exponetional time complexity (O(N^N) as I recall), so it has not been feasiable to use general routing algorithms for the multilayer problem with millions of connection points unless you restricted the problem to "Manhatten" layout.
There is some minor technical problem (lasers going diagonal in addition to up-down+left-right), but what is the big deal?
I really miss my old dual pentium 100MHz. SMP really rocks, even when used in a workstation. Everything is "snappier" because other processes does not bug down a new one.
But the price for a dual athlon 1GHz... I think I will wait until the price is reasonable for a dual "something" ~2GHz
Why haven't anyone tested the motherboard (with all its features) under Linux? Does the SCSI work? What about the onboard sound stuff? Is the asic supported by which kernels? etc.
However on the other hand, have they been programmed to obey Asimov's laws of robotics ?
As long as they are not self-conscious it is not a problem. The problems arise when they will be able to predict the consequences and weight pros and cons - then they should have Asimov's thre laws of robotics.
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I may be ignorant but after reading the two articles it seems to me that there is no real breakthrough. It all boils down to new routing algorithms.
I think that the basic problem has been that single-layer routing algorithms have a decent time complexity (O(N^2) I think), while multi-layer routing algorithms have exponetional time complexity (O(N^N) as I recall), so it has not been feasiable to use general routing algorithms for the multilayer problem with millions of connection points unless you restricted the problem to "Manhatten" layout.
There is some minor technical problem (lasers going diagonal in addition to up-down+left-right), but what is the big deal?
What am I missing? Or is it really all hype?
> Oh yeah, I never knew that the original Pentium could be SMP'ed
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Yes, I used this motherboard:
http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/Pentiu
Right now it is humming away running a web server and qmail, and I use a test platform for multithreaded programs.
I really miss my old dual pentium 100MHz. SMP really rocks, even when used in a workstation. Everything is "snappier" because other processes does not bug down a new one.
But the price for a dual athlon 1GHz... I think I will wait until the price is reasonable for a dual "something" ~2GHz
Why haven't anyone tested the motherboard (with all its features) under Linux? Does the SCSI work? What about the onboard sound stuff? Is the asic supported by which kernels? etc.
However on the other hand, have they been programmed to obey Asimov's laws of robotics ? As long as they are not self-conscious it is not a problem. The problems arise when they will be able to predict the consequences and weight pros and cons - then they should have Asimov's thre laws of robotics.