I'll always upvote Dave Ackley. His vision for computing is so audacious it seems unbelievable. Global consistency? Don't need it! Determinism? An illusory safety blanket for wimps and suckers! Sure, everyone talks a big game about eventual consistency, but who's signing up to use an eventually consistent CPU? Dave freakin' Ackley, that's who.<p>And the whole thing would sound like blue-sky bullshit except he's out there actually building it. I think the best place to start is this demo of a network switch made out of cells: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4flQ8XdvJM&t=11m23s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4flQ8XdvJM&t=11m23s</a> (and then watch the rest of the video if you liked that)<p>His more recent videos are weekly updates on a "T2 Tile" prototype made out of 3d printed parts, custom PCBs, and like a hundred BeagleBones: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheT2TileProject</a><p>Also, all his code is on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/DaveAckley/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/DaveAckley/</a>