Daniel Pfenniger wrote:
Craig Tierney wrote:
...
Do you have pricing on the Cell blades or co-processor boards? I doubt
they will be $8k, but I doubt they will be $100-$500.
For the Cell my guess is that if it fits in a game station it cannot cost
well over $500.-
But you cannot put a game station in a PCI-E slot. Although the chip
won't be very expensive the proper hardware to use it won't be
in volume like the chip. It won't be $8k, but I doubt it will be
that cheap.
Last time I asked Clearspeed they would not disclose a price since the
cards were not ready for shipping. Asking for a cost order of magnitude
(will it be in the 1'000, 10'000, or 100'000 range?) somewhat below 10k
appeared a reasonable estimate.
For my applications this is not competitive with commodity multicore
processors because I don't expect this card bringing more than a
factor 2-3 speedup (not much of the code would use long vectors
instructions).
What if you need a 2-3x speedup, and you don't have a computer room?
Do you want 4 nodes on your desktop? I wouldn't need it for my work,
but I can see where it would be useful.
Craig
Dan
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