Comments on: Non-von1 supercomputer

By: deb cordiosity

deb cordiosity — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:37:24 +0000

Fake. The page is a dead link. The project is a hoax.

By: inquisitor

inquisitor — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:07:13 +0000

All the websites don’t work. The pic here shows a book with a plug on the side. I don’t see any movie of it working, or wiring schematics, or photos of the components. It appears fake. If you’re going to do a project, at least show it working on youtube.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:07:46 +0000

To be fair to hackaday, I did submit it here first, they were just a bit slow to post stories today =) On that note:

1. Yes, it is non-von neumann. That’s why it’s called the “Non-Von.”

2. The I/O Bottleneck is a problem, but I set it at 19.2 kbd so I could talk to it using my Kaypro 2 computer (which is from 1983, and maxes out at 19.2 kbd). My FPGA board actually had a USB connection, although the drivers are for Windows only so I couldn’t really use it. I think that can go up to 35 megabytes/s pretty easily though.

3. Yes, it’s useless, but I needed an interesting way to teach myself Verilog =)

By: MattieShoes

MattieShoes — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:31:34 +0000

Look guys, reposting stories that you found on *smaller* websites is fine. But reposting stories you find on Slashdot is just silly.

By: darkore

darkore — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:16:51 +0000

Interesting, yet utterly useless.

By: mem

mem — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:02:25 +0000

localroger, yes that is what tfa said.

By: DarkFader

DarkFader — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:11:11 +0000

I’m sure there’s still some bottleneck in there. Perhaps that slow serial link to get data in and out.

By: localroger

localroger — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:52:55 +0000

this is actually a *non*-von neumann machine, meaning it does not store program and data in the same memory space. the decidedly non-supercomputeriffic intel 8048 and 8051 are also non-von designs.