Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Aug 2009 22:34 UTC
I've often wondered why computers - be it laptops or desktop - are so relatively monolithic. Wouldn't it make much more sense to have a whole cluster of very tiny individual computers, all with their own tiny processor, RAM, data storage, and serial ports, which power up when needed and are easily replaced when broken? Well, Liquidware thought so too, and came up with the Illuminato X Machina.
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2006-01-04
Your analysis is correct within the framework you describe in terms of having a large problem size and applying computing power to that problem.
Alternatively this seems like an ideal platform to run something like Plan 9 where rather than having parts of the problem be distributed the actual functions of the computing environment are distributed, i.e. terminal server, compute server, storage/file server. From that perspective it seems like it might be very functional even if it wasn't the fastest computing platform from a design standpoint.