Andrew Ball wrote to James Bradley, "Parallel"

 AB> Hello James,

  JB> They could be working parallel through a serial connection. 

 AB> In Dan's post I read that as 'series', probably because he
 AB> mentioned batteries.  Original Transputers used serial
 AB> connections, and reading some of AMD's 'HyperTransport'
 AB> whitepapers, perhaps the idea is not dead yet.

Oh, I knew that he was talking about electrical circuits. I was only hoping to
add some levity to the topic.

RE: Transport/HyperTransport

That's what it is called then? We aren't talking about Symmetric Multi
Processors, but with separate MB-CPUs working on the same problem? For
simplicity sake, would one 'puter work on part A of the math, while the second
works on part B?
  JB> I saw on TechTV some years ago, a PC recycler intercepted a pile
    > of relatively older servers, and through NICs had fashioned
    > this.

 AB> Sounds like the 'Stone Soupercomputer'.

I can't speak for what the fellow was on.  ...Or what he had for lunch!



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