Clustering and Grid Computing

Despite Apple leaving PowerPC it appears that the latest part(CPU) is nice, the e700 has the following on chip,

Dual 1.5Ghz PowerPC Core
4 Gigibit Ethernets
Dual 64Bit DRAM Bus (Wow lots of thruput)
PCI-Express (x8)

And the most important part, 15Watts Power.

Now we can build a "mesh" of these in two configs:

One is in a PC Motherboard config:

With good design, (high-quality motherboard substrate), may be able to get as many as 20 of these beasties on the motherboard. This equates to 40 CPU's in a PC case. Cooling is no worse than 4-6 AMD processors, and the perfomance for a single is equivlent to the best AMD(but with less power.).

The design would allow a solid grid of processors on the top of the motherboard, with memory(DRAM) undersneath using the memory chips directly. (No DIMMS they take up to much space.) Blind and Buried via's would be used to interconnect memory and dram.

I need to explore the booting options, while a single Flash chip could provide bootloader(u-boot) per CPU, a more indirect approach of using PCI-Express Switch as a secondary communication and boot would be a nice approach. Then all the CPU's would be in the memory-map of the control CPU.

I'd use Liquid Metal Cooling(No fans on the heat-sinks, less space), with a nice vortex cooler.
cooler integrated in the case. Add a couple of SLI PCI-Express card slots for "Graphics" would be nice.

OS would be debian (or yellow dog).

Matrix Technology: Large Scale Fish to Oil Conversion

With the rising price of oil, and the peaking of oil production, there is new ways of making "money" in the world. While Matrix viewed humans as a energy source, I tend to think a fast growing, fast multiplying species is a bit more suitable.

First, a introduction. It appears in the next 3-10 years that the world oil supply production capacity will peak. This means that oil prices will continue to rise. The issue is how do we increase the supply of oil, considering there is no m0re "new" dinosaurs available.

So we have two technical problems for our business plan.

1. Production of large amounts of "Protein" in the most cost effective and space/time conservative way possible.
2. Conversion of the Protein into Gasoline.


Problem #1
The easiest way of producing protein I believe is Fish Farming in lay terms. If the Shallow raceway technique is used, with a recycling system, we can produce huge amounts of fish in limited space, which translates to we can rack and stack "trays" in a continuous system to allow for the large scale production of fish. We will want to tune the system to "increase" the production and yield, while minimizing the impact in the environment. Since the concept is a large scale production factory, with all of the waste input into the next "stage" the environment should be saved alot of issues.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2109.1999.00408.x/abs/

Problem #2
We need to convert the fish into oil. The leading technology for this is currently used to convert "turnkey" waste into oil.

To see how it works, look at http://www.changingworldtech.com/what/index.asp

Combining the technology with lower labor and construction cost, where there currently exists large scale fishfarming, and having a direct connect between a high-density automated fish-farm directly feeding a conversion plant should yield oil that is profitable in the world with rising oil prices.