On 2011-12-16 Fri, at 01:38 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> How can we spend money now to live in the future? Alan mentioned the >> first way in his talk: put lots and lots of FPGA together. The BEE3 > > FPGAs suffer the problem of lack of embedded memory. Consider > GPGPU with quarter of TByte/s bandwidth across 2-3 GByte grains. > You just can't compete with economies of scale which allows you > hundreds to thousands of meshing such with InfiniBand.
Is speed really the bottleneck for making computers more useful? Personally, I don't find myself waiting on my computer much anymore. Most of my time is instead spent trying to tell the machine what to do while it sits there, idling. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
