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Comment Blind and def (Score 1) 435

You haven't heard because your instruments couldn't pick up an advanced civilization on the closest star.

The allen telescope array. couldn't detect our civilization on alpha centari. The only way we could detect a signal would be if it were both extremely powerful directly focused in our direction. The only possibility would be if we captured rare events of a focused beam sweeping past out position in space and they would have to swap the beam extremely slowly for the beam to be on us long enough to notice.

Comment Re:Obsolete computer architecture (Score 1) 54

Looks cool. Are these available? It seems the nodes are separated by comports and not shared ram buffers. I was hoping for in addition to local ram for each processor core, a few shared memory ranged with a group of other processors. Maybe in a bipartite graph configuration.

Comment Re: Obsolete computer architecture (Score 1) 54

It's called metal lines on the die. You put either Dual port ram between the units or interleaved ram. Many identical units within the same chip. Then put pin to pin connections to neighboring chips of the same type if you need more.

  The main point is to leave the data with its processor and quit shuffling data pages up and down different levels of cache.

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