10 Pb/sec? Re: IB vs Myrinet

[Andrew Latham]

speacking of big trucks (I almost hurt myself laughing).

did anyone ever use anything with the silk road technology.

I read about them making fiber adapters with internal robotics to grab the
fiber and automagicly align the laser for best use. It sounded cool a few years
ago, Just curious.


--- "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On 4 Nov 2003, Patrick Geoffray wrote:
> 
> > But what about this twin photon spin stuff ? You send a photon, you keep
> > his twin brother and when you spin the second one, the first one spin
> > the same way a few thousand miles away....
> 
> Oooo, don't get me started on EPR.  All I can say is no, no, and no.
> 
> Can't describe relativistic phenomena with non-relativistic physics, and
> you can't "spin one photon one way" and do anything at all to the other
> thousands of miles away.
> 
> Time reversal invariance.  Generalized master equation.  Quantum
> mechanics of closed systems is fully deterministic.  Measurement
> represents classical interference (all measurement apparati are
> classical and of indeterminate/stochastic phase and known only via a
> trace in the GME).
> 
> Ahhh, my head is
> exploding....must...stop...thinking...about...quantum...measurement...theory.
> 
> <splat>
> 
> > So let's say that Myricom's roadmap goes up way higher than 10
> googooplexb/s 
> > around 2030 :-)
> 
> Let's see, if we drive a truck containing 125 terabyte sized RAID arrays
> through a big garage door fast enough to pass through in about one
> second...I guess that makes about a Pbps, right?  So you're wrong, Jim.
> We can accomplish this today, at least in a burst.  If we can afford a
> whole line of said trucks, we might even achieve it sustained...;-)
> 
> All myricom needs is a bunch of trucks.  BIG trucks...:-)
> 
>    rgb
> 
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