{"id":390,"date":"2004-08-06T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T08:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2005-02-04T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T07:00:21","slug":"sun-working-to-obsolete-motherboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/06\/sun-working-to-obsolete-motherboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slashdot | Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Sun is developing a new technology that promises to increase computing power by eliminating the need for physical, soldered chip-to-chip connections on the motherboard. Called ‘proximity communications’, it portends the ability for chips to talk to one another wirelessly just by being next to each other. Potential applications in computer design abound. Apparently this is part of Sun’s Hero program, recipient of a $50 million grant from DARPA’s High Productivity Computing Systems program to rejuvenate supercomputing in the US and regain the lead lost to Japan, in particular to NEC’s Earth Simulator, ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slashdot | Sun Working to Obsolete Motherboards: “Sun is developing a new technology that promises to increase computing power by eliminating the need for physical, soldered chip-to-chip connections on the motherboard. Called ‘proximity communications’, it portends the ability for chips to talk to one another wirelessly just by being next to each other. Potential applications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-6i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":585,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/11\/physical-computing-workshop-runs-over-april-long-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":0},"title":"Physical Computing workshop runs over April long weekend","author":"nathaniel","date":"11 April 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Interactive Media Design MA student, Mayav Patel, demonstrates the physical computing application that he developed in the workshop led by Ralph Borland - pic and text by Christo Doherty Designed and led by Ralph Borland (ITP, New York; Michaelis Fine Art, UCT) the workshop was attended by a group of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1156,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/live-from-stellenbosch-u\/","url_meta":{"origin":390,"position":1},"title":"Live from Stellenbosch U","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 April 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"physical computing @ Stellenbosch Ralph Borland and I are giving a two-week workshop in interactive art at Stellenbosch University! 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