[jephree]

IBM Researchers Build Supercomputer-on-a-Chip

IBM announced research that uses pulses of light to replace electricity, speeding data transfer on a chip up to 100 times.

Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.

The technology, called silicon nanophotonics, replaces some of the wires on a chip with pulses of light on tiny optical fibers for quicker and more power-efficient data transfers between cores on a chip, said Will Green, research scientist at IBM.

The technology, which can transfers data up to a distance of a few centimeters, is about 100 times faster than wires and consumes one-tenth as much power, Green said. The lower power requirement should reduce operational costs for supercomputers, he said.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,14...e/article.html

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[Blue Summer]

So whats your question to the community? :P

[jephree]

You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God
Am I here all alone?"

[Blue Summer]

Your poems are sooo deep <3

[jephree]

Thank you Dylan.