http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/ Engadget Comments for Liquidware announces modular, scalable Arm-based motherboards http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 20th 2009 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 20th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 21st 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/
The theory behind this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_Data_Graph_Execution

A research processor that implements EDGE:
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However, whilst the redundant nature of the beast is handy, I don't see why people are going to need the parallel processing aspect - You're probably going to use another solution if you need more computing power than say 2-4 of these clustered together provides.

One to watch though - I'm sure some bright spark will identify a need....]]>Aug 21st 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 20th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 20th 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/Aug 20th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/
I just can't wait to get one of these and watch each board tell the other to flash different colours by checking the other one!

In all serious-ness though, I do understand whats going on here, and why its significant. I just don't see any reason that this couldn't be achieved with a couple of desktop computers anyway. This sort of thing is nothing special running on made-for-purpose hardware. The real ingenious is making this stuff run on existing hardware.]]>Aug 20th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/
I'm sure it was difficult. But, it's been done.
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Sure, simply looking in your freezer could immediately provide the answer, but 50 years down the line, we are all going to be so fat from eating hot pockets all day that we won't bother to get up unless we know there's a hot pocket waiting for us.]]>Aug 20th 2009 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9c9lAfXQHs]]>Aug 20th 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/liquidware-announces-modular-scalable-arm-based-motherboards/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_machine) even got the groovey LEDs :-) The CM itself was very heavily influenced by the ICL DAP in the 70s. I also remember one of the home computing mags in the 80's giving details of how to build a farm of Zilog Z80s to compute the Mandelbrot set in parallel. More power to their elbows. Eventually we will hit a point where bespoke hardware is required as we finally hit the wall on Moores Law. Even language specific processors are making a comeback (OK not much but someone is touting a "Java Machine") dreamy memories of the Japanese 5th Gen projects :-) It's just more fun having a bit of variety and a bit of asynchrony will keep a programmer on their toes.]]>Aug 21st 2009 5:07AM