On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:39:51PM +0800, Yan King Yin wrote: > Are there any parallel boards that can be added on to PCs at > affordable prices? (I mean having the potential to be on
Not really. You can cluster PCs just fine though, especially if you can live with GBit Ethernet. I'm hearing Infiniband port costs are falling very nicely, and will become commodity rather soon. FPGA accelerators are good, but you can't feed them fast enough. FPGA with onboard memory might be pretty optimal. None of this is commodity-priced. > every PC ) If not, what's the reason they have not been made? Because there's no market. > They could offer complementary functionality to current CPUs. You can actually use some of newer GPU for nigh-all-purpose crunch, but the extra gain in performance is not worth specialized code and tracking short hardware upgrades. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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