But as nobody has mentioned it yet surprisingly: https://www.greenarraychips.com/ albeit perhaps not weird; just different
There are secondary consequences of breaking computation down to a directed acyclic graph of binary logic operations. You can guarantee runtime, as you know a-priori how long each step will take. Splitting up computation to avoid the complications of Amdahl's law should be fairly easy.
I hope to eventually build a small array of Raspberry Pi Pico modules that can emulate a larger array than any one module can handle. Linear scaling is a given.
Regarding Amdahl's law and avoiding its complications this fits:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Apple-CORE+D-RISC+SVP+Microgrids+U...
(Not limited to SPARC, conceptually it's applicable almost anywhere else)
From the software-/programming-/compiler-side this fits right on top it:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dybvig+Nanopass
(Also conceptually, doesn't have to be Scheme, but why not? It's nice.)
Website: https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/index.php#arc...
PDF with technical overview of one of their chips: https://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB003-11...
Discussed:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23142322
* https://comp.lang.forth.narkive.com/y7h1mSWz/more-thoughts-o...