Inventor of cube supercomputer - 1000x more powerful, seeking $300M investment

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T_Yamamoto

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richardjharrisi said:
The power supplies are 1 Megawatt for each large cube. I know how to shield the cube if needed.
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Dude. Not to be an ass or anything but the grand majority of us here at AT don't give a crap. You need 300 mill for a computer. -_- just saying. And the only reason you bumped was to get attention again.
 
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Smoblikat

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Qianglong said:
I am looking at my linkedin groups and saw a post from this guy:
Richard John Harris II and his "invention" the cube supercomputer:

http://cubesupercomputers.com/Default.aspx

Apparently, his idea was to stack multiple ICs and make it an extremely dense CPU that is about 1000X more powerful than what we have. I'll let you guys have fun and dissect his "invention" lol...and maybe paypal him $1? After all, we need to support aspiring entrepreneurs with bright ideas to kick start the US economy :)
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I focus the heat to a spot then cool that spot with water or nitrogen. The end goal is one system with 1 to 8 billion processors that runs an AI system that can learn and teach the young.
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Yep, the best way to improve the economy is to give one guy hundreds of millions of dollars so he can replace all of Americas teachers :D
 
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Idontcare

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richardjharrisi said:
The power supplies are 1 Megawatt for each large cube. I know how to shield the cube if needed.
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I just got out of a meeting with a company in which they demonstrated that they have cracked the power variant introversion conundrum and have working prototypes that use only 100W in their power-cube.

They have already applied and received international patent protection, which supersedes US patent app, and are readying the commercial availability of their cube supercomputers.

The specs are that the supercomputer cubes will be 3000x more powerful, use 100W or less, comprise a phenomenal 16 billion processors and are going to retail for very low-cost (less than $500k).

I mentioned your claims of a supercomputer cube and they said their research pre-dates yours by at least 4 years as they started work in 1987, have had functioning cube supercomputers for over a decade but the US government restricted their sale to only NSA and military for national security reasons.

When I asked if your technology added anything new to the table they replied with "our supercomputer cubes make his look like a kid's toy".
 
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Someone please make a car stereo and other stereo equipment(MP3, radios, cell phones, notebooks) that outputs one channel in stereo on the left speakers and a different channel in stereo on the right speakers. I can listen to both at the same time but I'm sure they are others like me out there. If you would like to use the cell or cube technology in a network fabric, and/or router email me. Design a notebook to output 2 HDMI video channels and 2 different audio channels to head phones. Put my name(Richard John Harris II) on the patent and pay me a fair royality payment(PO BOX 1358, Copperas Cove, Tx 76522).
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quick, someone write up an article about the e-cat generator and send it this guys way.
 
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Seems this guy is some kind of computer fantasist. That or he worked at a data center for a long time, burnt out, and went insane. Not sure why such an advanced computer would still have such legacy features such as a BIOS. You'd think everything would evolve in unison!
 
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wirednuts

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djgandy said:
Seems this guy is some kind of computer fantasist. That or he worked at a data center for a long time, burnt out, and went insane. Not sure why such an advanced computer would still have such legacy features such as a BIOS. You'd think everything would evolve in unison!
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well, the ecat generator is 22nd century technology but they still have to cover it in aluminum foil. so whats your point?
 
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Idontcare

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djgandy said:
Seems this guy is some kind of computer fantasist. That or he worked at a data center for a long time, burnt out, and went insane. Not sure why such an advanced computer would still have such legacy features such as a BIOS. You'd think everything would evolve in unison!
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There isn't anything advanced or evolutionary in this proposed computer, that is the kicker.

The ideas are all rather traditional and predictable, making the resultant product rather pedestrian in concept.

The only thing that makes the topic interesting is the outlandish claims of scale (1000x more powerful, 15" per side cube, 1-8billion processors, etc)...but even that part is really quite pedestrian as anyone can just make up randomly large numbers in hopes of impressing the easily impressionable.
 
NTMBK

NTMBK

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Idontcare said:
I just got out of a meeting with a company in which they demonstrated that they have cracked the power variant introversion conundrum and have working prototypes that use only 100W in their power-cube.

They have already applied and received international patent protection, which supersedes US patent app, and are readying the commercial availability of their cube supercomputers.

The specs are that the supercomputer cubes will be 3000x more powerful, use 100W or less, comprise a phenomenal 16 billion processors and are going to retail for very low-cost (less than $500k).

I mentioned your claims of a supercomputer cube and they said their research pre-dates yours by at least 4 years as they started work in 1987, have had functioning cube supercomputers for over a decade but the US government restricted their sale to only NSA and military for national security reasons.

When I asked if your technology added anything new to the table they replied with "our supercomputer cubes make his look like a kid's toy".
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Now that's just cruel.
 
SagaLore

SagaLore

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Idontcare said:
I just got out of a meeting with a company in which they demonstrated that they have cracked the power variant introversion conundrum and have working prototypes that use only 100W in their power-cube.

They have already applied and received international patent protection, which supersedes US patent app, and are readying the commercial availability of their cube supercomputers.

The specs are that the supercomputer cubes will be 3000x more powerful, use 100W or less, comprise a phenomenal 16 billion processors and are going to retail for very low-cost (less than $500k).

I mentioned your claims of a supercomputer cube and they said their research pre-dates yours by at least 4 years as they started work in 1987, have had functioning cube supercomputers for over a decade but the US government restricted their sale to only NSA and military for national security reasons.

When I asked if your technology added anything new to the table they replied with "our supercomputer cubes make his look like a kid's toy".
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Wait, you were in that meeting too? Were you the guy in the red shirt? I thought you looked familiar. You know we all signed non-disclosure agreements, you really shouldn't have posted this in public. I won't tell though.
 
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Charles Kozierok

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So is the idea here to stack up a bunch of dice, or finished processors? What's the point in stacking them anyway? It's pretty hard to even understand what's being proposed.
 
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Idontcare

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Charles Kozierok said:
What's the point in stacking them anyway?
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To get the heat density so high that the system then requires liquid nitrogen cooling combined with a nuclear power plant (seriously, he claims this) to power it to overcome all the leakage losses.

Basically it is a solution to the need to have a problem to solve.

If you don't do irrational things in building your supercomputer then you won't have a good excuse to do equally irrational things to solve the problems created by your supercomputer.

But if you do rational things while building your supercomputer then you'll get something that doesn't sound so revolutionary, doesn't quite seem like the novel creation of a brilliant mind, and that would defeat the entire exercise. (the narcissism is strong in the "cube" creator, just read the bio)

Did I leave anything out?
 
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Tsavo

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Idontcare said:
To get the heat density so high that the system then requires liquid nitrogen cooling combined with a nuclear power plant (seriously, he claims this) to power it to overcome all the leakage losses.
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Just square the reverse postulate.

Everyone knows this!
 
SagaLore

SagaLore

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Idontcare said:
If you don't do irrational things in building your supercomputer then you won't have a good excuse to do equally irrational things to solve the problems created by your supercomputer.
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1000x more powerful, seeking $300M investment

If instead of a $300M supe that is 1000x, we just setup 1000x computers - that is $300,000 per computer. Just imagine the cost savings! I won't need this underpowered $400k computer anymore.
 
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Ajay

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Idontcare said:
To get the heat density so high that the system then requires liquid nitrogen cooling combined with a nuclear power plant (seriously, he claims this) to power it to overcome all the leakage losses.

Basically it is a solution to the need to have a problem to solve.

If you don't do irrational things in building your supercomputer then you won't have a good excuse to do equally irrational things to solve the problems created by your supercomputer.

But if you do rational things while building your supercomputer then you'll get something that doesn't sound so revolutionary, doesn't quite seem like the novel creation of a brilliant mind, and that would defeat the entire exercise. (the narcissism is strong in the "cube" creator, just read the bio)

Did I leave anything out?
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Light Sabers :twisted:
 
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