[rescue] high memory bandwidth machine?

Kurt Huhn kurt at k-huhn.com
Sun Feb 3 13:05:35 CST 2002


> by my calculations is half what 200mhz DDR in the Athlon does? Are there
> any fairly cheep (try $10-20k at the most) workstations that have
> significantly higher memory bandwidth than a current PC? Video is
> irrelevant to his app :)
>

Dude, SGI - all the way.  These things are *built* for memory/information
bandwidth.  You can get an Origin 2000 for a good price these days, and it
won't stress the $20k (!) budget unless you go hog wild on extras.

Here's a nice example on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2000324748

Kurt



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