POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Complicated : Re: Complicated Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:30:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Complicated  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 6 Jun 2011 14:07:09
Message: <4ded174d$1@news.povray.org>
>> Right.. There would need to be some sort of controller that could
>> transfer
>> data from Block A to Block B. Addressing would be quite ...
>> interesting in
>> this scheme.
>
> This is a well known problem with lots of good solutions, depending on
> how you implement the interconnections. The problem is that lots of
> algorithms are inherently sequential.

Sometimes I start thinking like this:

Why do we have computers in the first place?

To do the sorts of calculations that humans suck at.

What sorts of calculations do humans suck at?

Calculations which aren't easily parallelisable.

If this line of logic is correct... um... we may have a problem here.

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