Whatever happened to Lucid's Hydra multi gpu tech?

[poohbear]

Hey all, anyone hear anything new on Lucid's Hydra multi gpu technology? It was supposed to scale 100% in accordance w/ the video cards used in a multi-gpu config (trumping both SLI & Crossfire). ie a 4850 added to another 4850 would show a 100% increase in FPS. It made quite a splash when it was announced last summer, but have'nt heard ANYTHING since. Any word on its development? check it out for those that are'nt familiar:

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379

 

[aka1nas]

It's still vaporware, hopefully we'll see shipping hardware soon.

 

[shangshang]

A little googling found this article about Hydra dated April 20, 2009

http://gpucafe.com/2009/02/luc...-100-closer-than-ever/

Hopefully something will come.

 

[alyarb]

no new info at that link. all the same, it is cool. lucid is always at the bottom of my list of things to check updates for and i always forget about them. i know they have 60+ patents and scores of millions in funding, but you can't hold your breath.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: shangshang
A little googling found this article about Hydra dated April 20, 2009

http://gpucafe.com/2009/02/luc...-100-closer-than-ever/

Hopefully something will come.

The source from that article is the last announcement from January 30th. ELSA is only releasing an external 4 GPU box, it's a proprietary HPC solution that would be competing at the higher-end Tesla products. There still have not been any solutions aimed at gamers announced.