Good news, everybody! Those super-geniuses over at
IBM have whipped up a new form of CPU transfer which utilizes pulses of light instead of electricity to move data between cores on a chip. The new technology -- which is one-hundred times faster than current speeds -- is called silicon nanophotonics, and if implemented, could downsize supercomputers to laptop stature. The invention is unhindered by common problems with electrical chips, such as overheating and breakdown of data on short trips, allowing signals to pass unmolested over greater distances. Using this process, data can be moved a few centimeters, while requiring one-tenth as much power, resulting in lower operational costs for supercomputers. Will Green, a researcher at IBM, says that the company's creation will, "Be able to have hundreds or thousands of cores on a chip," and will result in huge speed boosts. Unfortunately, the project is on track to be carried out in
10 to 12 years, which leaves a lot of time to ponder if the chips will play Doom.
posted December 6th 2007 9:19AM
So basically it's the strobe light of CPUs?
I LOVE the Futurama stuff lately, and yes this seems like good news indeed. The 2020's will be booming if this is true.
*to the post
Its "Good news every ONE!" Not every body...sorry, but it irritates the heck out of me, when i see Futurama phrases being misquoted. Specially this simple yet widely used beloved Prof. Farnsworth one - and this isn't the first time someone did that either.
Humble request to everyone: Don't use Futurama quotes unless you're sure you're not going to butcher it.
*You're free to take liberty w/ Family Guy lines however =P
What are you talking about? He didn't say good news everyone OR everybody, he said good news indeed.
Humble request to everyone: Don't rag on someone for "butchering" a Futurama quote when they didn't.
Oh, I see what he was referring to. My bad.
Or as we call it Sky Net!
WGA + auto updates.
same deal with iRobot ;)
http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/
When you're talking world domination, it's /all/ about the software.
hehe the Futurama stuff is great (and so is the new "movie" btw)...
just wondering if it's like a kinda hidden commercial thing? not that I mind when it's Futurama... :P
No they have got Hypno toad for that.
Chips are good with rootbeer...
So are Amburgers
dont forget french cries
freedom cries
Kill all the Humans!
[QUOTE]The invention is unhindered by common problems [...] such as [...] breakdown of data on short trips, allowing signals to pass unmolested over greater distances.[/QUOTE]
Less breakdown of data on short trips allows signals to travel greater distances? Huh? Shouldn't that be less breakdowns on long trips?
Well, maybe they are sending it on a series of short trips, kinda like taking the bus...hence the data arriving "unmolested". Unlike now, when data has to make a long trip, all by itself, meets a lonely trucker in the second core, then it needs counseling, and then we get the BSOD.
@double d
Well, maybe they are sending it on a series of short trips, kinda like taking the bus...hence the data arriving "unmolested".
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try that in the UK, there will be some molestation going on for sure ;)
@double d
Well, maybe they are sending it on a series of short trips, kinda like taking the bus...hence the data arriving "unmolested".
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try that in the UK, there will be some molestating going on for sure ;)
@double d
Well, maybe they are sending it on a series of short trips, kinda like taking the bus...hence the data arriving "unmolested".
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try that in the UK, there will be some molesting going on for sure ;)
Whatphone's comment made me laugh my ass off the first time. The second and third were just...well...redundant.
@andrew,
thanks and sorry... I clicked "add your comments" three times... I got impatient :(
I feel like Prof. Farnsworth should have a speech bubble next to him that says "Good News Everybody."
No!! Don't put a speech bubble next to him, it's funnier in the post! It's really funny that someone mentioned reading this with his voice in your head, that happened without me even noticing. :)
I feel he should have one that says "good news everyone", like the actual quote. But I guess by now you're in a rut of misquoting futurama.
Wow... you got me John. Everyone bow down to this guy. Hide your daughters because John is out there...
Its now about 2:30, so high school is getting out...
Oh yeah... and read the first line of the article tool. What does it say? There you go... comment explained.
Didn't the Israelis come up with something like this last year? "A CPU that could compute att the speed of light", I think..
If you think the high-def format wars are bad, wait until we have the "Quantum vs Photonic vs DNA" computer war, heh heh.
you forgot phoonic (pho-on-ic?) computers, that use heat to transmit data.
"unmolested" ha...
okay it should play doom, but what about duke nukem forever?
when the tech comes out in 10 to 12 years, Duke Nukem Forever will still be in development... maybe an alpha state?
Does anyone know of good ways to please our future robot masters?
Will I dream, Dave?
I just have to say after seeing Farnsworth picture I imagined his voice speaking the entire post. It made it rather comical, and I have to say that while it still may be 10-12 years down the road. I can't hardly imagine what things will be like.
Skynet!
I can already hear my future self saying to my grandkids "when I was your age we only had ONE core"...
..and we liked it!!!
WTF's a "Core" Grandpa?
And we had to stream data by hand in shoeboxes, uphill, BOTH WAYS!!
Yeah, it may be able to play Doom, but, most likely at something damn near close to light speed where hitting the "W" key moves you half way across the map. If you even call that playable (I've done something similar, it's fun for like... 5 minutes)
And yeah, this stuff is cool. I'd really like to see the effects development like this has on consumer processors. I imagine this will lead to not only faster, more efficient computers, but routers that can process and transmit data at a MUCH quicker pace.
I'm really curious to what developments this makes.
GR
These new chips will be perfect for our new robotic overlords!
try writing software that would support this!
it writes its own software... but feels purposeless because it cant seem to find a question that can even begin to challenge it.
Super computers will, of course, still be enormous. Every time a single chip gets faster, super computers stay the same size and just get that much faster. It's ridiculous when companies claim they have a supercomputer for the desktop. (I'm lookin' at you, Apple.) Sure, if you're comparing it to a super computer 10-20 years ago. There will always be a need for more power than a single desktop box provides - and that will be filled by .. gasp! .. larger computers.
Almost every year researchers from different places announce this kind of inventions or discoveries. I believe last year MIT announced something similer. This is all BS.. Instead of announcing that it will see the light 12 years from now.. why don't you waint 5 more years to announce this and say it will be available 5 years from now right. This kind statements from companies like IBM and even universities are just like advertisements for their brand names (including MIT)
Not if it will play doom, but how many frames you can get.
Probabbly somewhere between 30 and 40 million FPS.
This wont reduce supercomputers to the size of laptops, they'll just use more of them.
More power = more good
I can't wait till IBM are bought out by Mom's Friendly Robot Company.
Love the Prof., but isn't his catchphrase "Good news, everyone!"
P.S. Silicon Nanophtonics, sounds kinda like Borg tech to me, lol.
*Nanophotonics