The PDF is certainly pretty! I've left a message asking about price and
availability. At a glace, an initial boost seems possible with little more
than a re-compile. The SDK would allow the entire application to run on
board the board so to speak- could certainly be interesting. Since I also am
addicted to fractals, I may well have to guinea pig one of these...

--hsm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Jon Strayer
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:35 AM
> To: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search list
> Subject: Re: [Prime] AMD overheating bug
> 
> On 4/30/06, Jason Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Jon Strayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > "Clearspeed says the part consumes no more than 10W yet delivers
> 250,000
> > > 1024-point complex floating point operations each second."
> > >
> > > How much of a plus?
> >
> > I think the article probably means 250k 1024-point complex FFTs, which
> is
> > a
> > standard benchmark for signal processing hardware. Four microseconds for
> > an
> > FFT of that size is incredibly fast.
> >
> 
> 
> I took a look at their website where they claim 50 GFLOPS per board.
> Prime
> net is showing roughly 20,000 GFLOPS for all of GIMPS.  So, as a rough
> estimate, 400 of these boards could handle all of GIMPS current load.
> 
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