Technology Porn

[gW33Zy]

^^^ you and JPS must be sweethearts

[King_Jay16]

i don't see those GPUs lasting very long in that kind of dusty condition

[Satanforce]

I give you the SpaceGun. Basically you get a gun , point it into to the sky, and fire it. Sounds crazy? They built a successful prototype in Barbados. It would also lower the cost of launches to orbit from 10000USD/kilogram to 500USD/kilogram.

[carey]

I give you the SpaceGun. Basically you get a gun , point it into to the sky, and fire it. Sounds crazy? They built a successful prototype in Barbados. It would also lower the cost of launches to orbit from 10000USD/kilogram to 500USD/kilogram.

I remember that movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Gun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53CHK4236Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg_Tc7kDPwk

[Satanforce]

Ahem... Picking up where we left off....

Next, we have a case of SatanTheory gone mad. I give you the GreenArrays GA144 144 multicomputer processor.

That was not a typo. Not 144 cores -144 computers. Each computer has its program space (and extremely small, relatively speaking) RAM. I would tell you the speed, but it has no clock. It is an asynchronous design, it executes instructions as fast as 1.4 nanoseconds, therefore 700Mhz. It is a stack machine - two stacks , no register, so no assembly language. Everything is in the FORTH programming language.

You would think that a device like this , with 144 computers in it, would draw current like hell , right? No. It draws 0.65 Watts at maximum, you could run using a lemon as a battery.

The architecture, as you can imagine, is funny. 18-bit architecture, with each processor having 64 words, of 8 bits each - and other strange stuff as well.....