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Subject: Re: Multi-Hydra Computer Feasible in Future?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:43:11 02/17/04

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On February 17, 2004 at 11:39:09, Keith Evans wrote:

>On February 17, 2004 at 05:52:51, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On February 17, 2004 at 00:31:56, Keith Evans wrote:
>>
>>>On February 16, 2004 at 11:37:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 15, 2004 at 15:14:16, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The cards, about $500 a piece.
>>>>
>>>>$3000 a card at least.
>>>>
>>>>Hydra gets sponsored by a FPGA company called Xilinx.
>>>>
>>>
>>>When I recently looked at price quotes for an XC2V1000 part which is apparently
>>>what Chrilly uses I see that you can get some speed grades for under $200 now.
>>
>>Chrilly needs development boards in each computer and add to that a chip with a
>>million programmable gates. 60000 gates is really too little ;)
>
>Vincent - do you have any idea what a XC2V1000 is? Hint it's more advanced than
>a XCV1000E. Xilinx refers to it as a 1M "system gate" part. (You have to use a
>lot of the RAM for this gate count to make sense.)
>
>In the past Chrily said - "In Brutus I use the somewhat outdated XiLinx-Virtex-I
>V1000E." (I think that Chrilly got the part number a little incorrect.)
>
>Anyways I actually used to design printed circuit boards, so you're not talking
>to a complete idiot when it comes to PCBs. I was also the one that told you that
>it was possible to implement killer moves in hardware when you said that it was
>impossible. Now you backpedal and mention how it costs an extra clock or
>something.


And you are surprised by this behavior???

:)

It happens _all_ the time...



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