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...boys made good use of their time, working up material and trying it out on whoever was making a bank shot nearby. Even far from the green felt, however, the tunes that Llanas and Neumann write stir memories of late nights, lost loves and lives edging over to the debit side. "I have a hard time with lyrics, so I keep it simple," Llanas says. "I write about boys and girls." Neumann, who splits the writing with Llanas, says, "All our lyrics are real positive. I like happy endings...
...ahead, pedal-to-the-floor rock with no fancy instrumentation, just the sort of thing to come floating back from the window of a car that is moving too fast in the passing lane. Simple, direct, traditional, without the calculated callowness of retro rock. Despite the modest claims of Neumann and Llanas, the echoes of the BoDeans' music cut past the surface calm. These tunes have a strong undertow...
Most computers built in the past 40 years were designed to do one thing at a time. Following the basic concept conceived by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1945, they consist of a single, high-speed central processing unit connected to an array of memory cells. "The two-part architecture keeps the silicon devoted to processing wonderfully busy," says Hillis. "But this is only 2% or 3% of the silicon area. The other 97% (the memory bank) sits idle...
...grown more capacious, this design has become increasingly inefficient. While it is easy to expand memory, it is hard to increase the capacity of the processor. As a result, giant machines are forced to draw their data through a single narrow passageway known by computer scientists as the Von Neumann bottleneck...
...natural structure of the data. To simulate a computer component made up of 20,000 transistorized switches, for example, the machine would assign one processor to each switch. Then, rather than updating the state of those 20,000 switches one at a time, as in a traditional Von Neumann-type computer, the Connection Machine's software simply tells the 20,000 processors to update themselves all at once...