Author: Slater Wold
Date: 12:26:45 02/15/04
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On February 15, 2004 at 15:22:03, Joachim Rang wrote: >On February 15, 2004 at 15:14:16, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On February 15, 2004 at 15:09:57, Bob Durrett wrote: >> >>>On February 15, 2004 at 15:06:26, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>On February 15, 2004 at 14:34:08, Bob Durrett wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>I envision a standard equipment rack with 32 or 64 Hydra cards, a power supply, >>>>>possibly a conventional computer for orchestration, and fans. >>>> >>>>Do you think Hydra was running on a single computer, with a single card? >>> >>>Actually, that is what I thought. What was actually done? >> >>4 Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz PCs & 8 FPGA cards (2 per PC) >> >>The PCs are probably $5k a piece. The cards, about $500 a piece. >> >>$25k worth of hardware, just to draw Shredder 8 ($50 program) on a PC. >> >>Still think Hydra is the 'engine of the future'? :) >> > >be fair here: Shredder was running on a Dual Xeon 3.06 GHz, probably 10k Ack! I'm not sure about $10k, but it's not an average PC, no. >and think about the potential for Hydra. Soon we have PCI-Express more bandwidth >and the FPGAs ware running @ 33 MHz this is easy to tune in contrary to the >CPU-Clocks. Talk to anyone who knows anything about FPGAs. They will never catch the PC, in terms of price OR performance. Sure, 8 FPGAs are fast. But you ever see 8 Opterons going? :) (And 8 Opterons would be cheaper!!) >I don't thin, that Hydra will be a commercial success but I think we might see >beautiful performance in the near future. Correct. Neat idea. Not going anywhere. >regards Joachim
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