Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.
If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.
Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.
The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer and it will take forever to completely describe how it works.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.