> I'm guessing, a client hasn't been attempted, but I'd certainly love to ha
ve
> one. I have
> way too many machines that are Dual and Quad Processor Intels that could
> seriously take
> advantage of this.
The current generation of multiple single processors each with their own cac
he sharing a main memory bus is really not suitable, interprocess communicat
ions is just far too slow.
the only kind of parallel processor that really helps at all on large FFT's
are the socalled SIMD vector machines, which are really a single processor t
hat has a bunch of parallel arithmetic units that all work in parallel on th
e same instruction with different data.
The new Intel 'Itanium' aka IA-64 aka merced will undoubtably prove interest
ing for this sort of application, as its a VLIW type architecture which is a
variation on SIMD (you could call it MIMD, multiple instructions on multiple
data).
-jrp
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