Have you ever worked on high performance systems? I would like to see one that was "non-proprietary". Try passing 100Gbit over an IDE channel, then you can complain about "proprietary crap."
Well.... You can do that. And you can have a lot more than four interconnects per chips. However the "simple optical connections" are anything but simple. Look into (forgive the pun) photonic switching fabrics for more info.
Cray Inc. is looking into optically coupled chips for their Cascade project (DARPA supercompute-off). Sun just thinks capacitive coupling is the way to go.
As far as the heat goes... it doesn't generate as much heat as real connections, as little or no current is flowing.
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Where's Richard Dean Anderson when we need him?
Well of course it's slow! They are emulating IIS on WinNT, all running on a Commodore 64!
No, your wife is right. email me and I'll send my mailing address so you can ship it to me.
Man, I was wondering what I was going to do with the 5000 gallons of lead-based paint I have.... Introducing... WiFi Blocking PAINT!!!!
Have you ever worked on high performance systems? I would like to see one that was "non-proprietary". Try passing 100Gbit over an IDE channel, then you can complain about "proprietary crap."
Well.... You can do that. And you can have a lot more than four interconnects per chips. However the "simple optical connections" are anything but simple. Look into (forgive the pun) photonic switching fabrics for more info. Cray Inc. is looking into optically coupled chips for their Cascade project (DARPA supercompute-off). Sun just thinks capacitive coupling is the way to go. As far as the heat goes... it doesn't generate as much heat as real connections, as little or no current is flowing.
Have you ever tried to go to BestBuy and buy a "motherboard" for a SunFire 6800?