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smilekzs on Sept 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Ar...

Hop time is not constant. There will be longer and shorter optical links, and if you want the system to be synchronous, everyone would have to wait on the longer links.

Lerc on Sept 18, 2018 [–]

True, angles would add a little extra depending on how large the proccessor panels were and their separation distance.

I had envisioned every link comminicating independantly. what would be the advantage of communicating syncronously?

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