[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Joshua D. Boyd]

There was something on /. awhile ago about a 10proc box finally being
delivered to NASA.  It might be fast at computing, but from what I saw,
I'm pretty sure that memory bandwidth is a major problem.  Think about
it, 10 processors on a PCI bus?  PCI only has 133 megs of bandwidth.  

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Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:27:45PM -0400, David Michaud wrote:
> > What about the Xilinx FPGA reconfigurable supercomputers? Ability to do
> > a single function _really_ fast, and reconfigure itself to do something
> > else... _really_ fast. Of course, this is scalar, not vector. Not sure
> > about the feasibility, but it's certainly an idea.
> 
> Haven't companies been announcing vaporware "infinitely faster" machines
> based on this for the past 2-3 years now?  I dont think anyone
>  has delivered PRODUCT yet..
> 
> Bill
> 
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