2026-09-15 22:06 UTC
@yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org Oh yeah, definitely. But maybe...a cage of cards, with some kind of shared network backplane, and even a shared storage backplane...then each card runs a hyper-specialized set of daemons (like, one's DHCP, one's DNS, etc.), and some single card manages all the rest....
Wait.. Are we re-inventing mainframes? :) (I know not really, but... this thought experiment gets pretty silly pretty fast.)
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@yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-09-15 22:51
@darthnull@infosec.exchange You can build a supercomputer even more cheaply using tiny #RISCV chips; the problem lies in the shared bus and the fundamental question: "So, what exactly do you plan to do with it?" :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QRKpd28NEE