From a02a7905cd67f1dce9f863a6eaa0cf4532e74d59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rajames Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 21:35:51 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs(v4.0.0): talking nodes -- 2x2 + 1 central, six ports, scaling at run time Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/v4.0.0/ENGINE.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/v4.0.0/ENGINE.md b/docs/v4.0.0/ENGINE.md index d784b6fe..3ab890d1 100644 --- a/docs/v4.0.0/ENGINE.md +++ b/docs/v4.0.0/ENGINE.md @@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ Rulings on that step so far: The common SSD is the system-resident store, Artemis's disk (`FABRIC-2.md` F.16). +- **The first set of nodes: "2x2 + 1 central".** Five: four in a 2x2, + and one in the middle. Read back to Captain Bob, and not corrected, as: + each outer node wired to its two grid neighbours and to the centre; the + centre wired to all four; the centre is Hera. +- **A node has six ports, not four** — "A, as long as it can scale at + runtime adaptively." With four, the centre's are all taken by the outer + nodes and nothing is left for the common SSD or the console. Six is also + what a 12^3 grid needs. `DECOMPOSITION.md` section 6 is to be corrected. +- **It must scale at run time, adaptively.** The number of nodes and their + wiring are not fixed when the system is built. + The design of this step is being worked out by question and answer and is not written yet. Nothing of it is built.