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"Modular" Motherboards
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Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard by Priya Ganapati - WIRED

An ambitious group of hardware hackers have taken the fundamental building blocks of computing and turned them inside out in an attempt to make PCs significantly more efficient.

The group has created a motherboard prototype that uses separate modules, each of which has its own processor, memory and storage. Each square cell in this design serves as a mini-motherboard and network node; the cells can allocate power and decide to accept or reject incoming transmissions and programs independently. Together, they form a networked cluster with significantly greater power than the individual modules.

The design, called the Illuminato X Machina, is vastly different from the separate processor,memory and storage components that govern computers today.

“We are taking everything that goes into motherboard now and chopping it up,” says David Ackley, associate professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico and one of the contributors to the project. “We have a CPU, RAM, data storage and serial ports for connectivity on every two square inches.”

A modular architecture designed for parallel and distributed processing could help take computing to the next level, say its designers. Instead of having an entire system crash if a component experiences a fatal error, failure of a single cell can still leave the rest of the system operational. It also has the potential to change computing by ushering in machines that draw very little power.

“We are at a point where each computer processor maxes out at 3Ghz (clock speed) so you have to add more cores, but you are still sharing the resource within the system,” says Justin Huynh, one of the key members of the project. “Adding cores the way we are doing now will last about a decade.”

Huynh and his team are no strangers to experimenting with new ideas. Earlier this year, Huynh and his partner Matt Stack created the Open Source Hardware Bank, a peer-to-peer borrowing and lending club that funds open source hardware projects. Stack first started working on the X Machina idea about 10 months ago

Computing today is based on the von Neumann architecture: a central processor, and separate memory and data storage. But that design poses a significant problem known as the von Neumann bottleneck. Though processors can get faster, the connection between the memory and the processor can get overloaded.That limits the speed of the computer to the pace at which it can transfer data between the two.

“A von Neumann machine is like the centrally planned economy, whereas the modular, bottom up, interconnected approach would be more capitalist,” says Ackley.”There are advantages to a centrally planned structure but eventually it will run into great inefficiencies.”

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Looks pretty cool if you ask me!


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: cortex]
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Thanks! very nice :laugh:


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: dstark]
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Crazy little bastards they are!  :kidnap:


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: smack]
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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: JaComet]
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wtf, and i just ordered an i7 w/ ddr3.  r these on newegg yet, i think its not to late for me to send all my new hardware back.


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: iateshaggy]
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Those wont be available any time soon


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: iateshaggy]
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iateshaggy said:
wtf, and i just ordered an i7 w/ ddr3.  r these on newegg yet, i think its not to late for me to send all my new hardware back.


there open source so fill up the etching tank warm up the soldering iron and get to work
if you really want one


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Re: "Modular" Motherboards [Re: arainbow]
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looks like a really fancy folding@home computer, or purhaps the next step towards replicators



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