Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:03:43 01/31/05
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On January 31, 2005 at 10:14:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 31, 2005 at 10:01:16, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >> >>news from 28/01/05 (more to come) >> >>http://hydrachess.com/hydra-scylla.html >> >>32 nodes (previous version has 16) , no information about CPU power and FPGA >>cards yet ... > >It's 4 nodes. > >1 node = 8 processor Xeon. > >FPGA cards would get double speed. So must be between 30Mhz and 60Mhz. They only >use development fpga cards. So never use the real power of fpga (which is >printing your own processor which can run hands down at 600Mhz or more). They >stick to development cards for some unknown reason to me. > >CPU power is not interesting at all of course, cards do the work. > >Vincent I hope not. Old machine used 8 boxes with 2 cpus per box. Going to 8-way xeons is a performance killer. The PCI bus just can't keep up.
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