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. > > -- > Esse quam videri > (to be rather than to seem) > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
