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Super Computer in the desktop

Adul

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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html

😀😀😀😀

When it comes to market, the chip will likely be sold to consumers as a co-processor -- an add-on PCI card that works in parallel with a PC's main processor, just like an add-on graphics card. But instead of boosting graphics performance, the chip will help compute intensive math calculations.

Similar capabilities are already built into Apple's G4 and G5 Macs, which have a floating-point co-processor called AltiVec, which handles complex, data-intensive calculations for the main processor. But whereas AltiVec is four-way parallel, ClearSpeed's chip is 64-way, the company said.

:Q

just imagine rc5 or seti on this
 
I'll believe it when I see it. 😉

Color me pessimistic, but I seem to recall a previous announcement of a product called "Total mPower" by a company called "Total Impact" making similar claims of "PCI cards with quad G4 processors", etc, etc,.. and where are they now?
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I saw this earlier, most of these things never make it all the way to market - of course if this one does and it's as good as they claim everyone will need at least a half a dozen of them eh?
 
Dreamers
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Do you know how many times I've seen these stories in that past 20 years... By the time they get them to market, if they survive that long, the product is little more than an overpriced second rate computer on a PCI card.

In other words, believe it when you see it 😉
 
Originally posted by: Hellburner
Dreamers
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Do you know how many times I've seen these stories in that past 20 years... By the time they get them to market, if they survive that long, the product is little more than an overpriced second rate computer on a PCI card.

In other words, believe it when you see it 😉
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let us dream 😛
 
If it is true and this does hit the market with the performance stated, this is the next "big" technology step that computing hasn't crossed in some time. I am pessimistic about it actually happening, but damn would it be sweet!!
 
Originally posted by: Overkiller
So who would pony up $5K for one?
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$5k is not enough. Here is a reply to a request for more information (which is at the bottom). 😛


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Dear Peter,

Thank you very much for your interest in ClearSpeed.

We have just received our first batch of processors back from
manufacturing and are testing them now. So far the results are wonderful
and we expect to begin shipment of development boards and software tools
in December.

The initial development board will enable users to plug it into an
existing PCI slot in a PC allowing the acceleration of software normally
run on Intel or AMD processors. Of course, portions of that software
must be ported to our architecture. We are hopeful that developers will
begin to prepare their applications to use our architecture.

We will provide these PCI boards with the choice or one or two
ClearSpeed CS301 processors on them and multiple boards could be placed
in a single PC, providing 100s of GFLOPS in one PC.


The Development kit with our PCI board including the CS301 chip and our
software tools is budgeted to cost $25,000. The cs301 chips in volume
are being budgeted at $1,000 each.

Best regards,

Dave Hoff
Director, Technical Marketing

ClearSpeed Technology, Inc.
20 North Santa Cruz Ave., Suite C
Los Gatos, CA 95030
Cell: (408) 499-3991
office: (408) 395-3850
fax: (408) 395-7045
www.ClearSpeed.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter de Nies [mailto:webmaster@dcparadise.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:58 AM
To: Dave Hoff
Cc: Jamie Packer
Subject: Customer enquiry from website: #00099


Customer contact from the ClearSpeed website.
From: Peter de Nies <webmaster@dcparadise.org>
* Requests to be on mailing list
Title: Information Intermediair
Company: Ministry of Internal and Royal affairs
Phone:
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I'm very interested in your concept of HP-computing. I would like to
know if your products are already on the market for purchase and if so,
what is needed and what the costs are for adding the CS301 next to a
general purpose processor from Intel or AMD.

With highest regards,

Peter de Nies.
===============

So one board + two processors + devkit would cost some $26k. 🙁
How much are we going to purchase????? 😉
 
I'm still curious how they can pump enough data through the pci buss to keep something supposedly that fast busy. even a 66mhz 64bit pci slot wouldn't be fast enough for symetrical processing.
 
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