Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 03:31:58 07/27/03
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On July 26, 2003 at 17:22:02, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 26, 2003 at 16:25:37, O. Veli wrote: > >>Since it is hardware, can >>we expect to be stronger than top software? > >I would expect it to be slower than top software, because cpu improvements >happen so quickly, and FPGA programming (from what I've heard) is not a simple >task. If he spends another two years working on it before releasing it (as >Slater said), just imagine how much faster the cpus will be by then. > >If you're talking about something massively parallel like Deep Blue, that is one >thing, but a single PCI card? I doubt that is going to do any better than break >even with top of the line hardware, so why bother? IBM threw so much hardware at >the problem that desktop cpu improvements wouldn't catch up for a LONG time, but >a single PCI card doesn't seem to be worth the trouble of programming the thing, >because desktop/server cpus will probably outperform it before too long. The way i understand it, the whole idea with running FPGA is that no matter how much knowledge you add, you won't lose speed, will that not more than compensate for the PC programs gain through faster hardware? Also again if i understand correctly, you can make Brutus run on more than 1 chip, simply by adding more FPGA cards? Jonas
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