> This XP-15 ( http://www.superdsp.com/ ) bad boy DSP card looks pretty
> impressive, how useful would it be in searching for Mersenne primes? At
> $14,000 a pop, how would it compare to a farm of P4's? According to the
> Presentation pdf, it is 42 times as fast as a 1.4GHz P4 at a 1024K FFT!
The killer thing is that the vector processing unit only handles
32 bit IEEE FP numbers...
Laurent
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