Re: Opinion question (Core2 Duo)

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:48:01AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:29:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 
> > Where would you go for floating point?  Last time I looked, Cray used
> > Opterons as nodes in its supercomputers.
> 
> True, but in terms of memory bandwidth the opteron is very good, and
> hypertransport allows them to pop fpga's and other custom logic chips
> into cpu sockets and have amazing acess to the main cpus and memory at
> quite low cost.  After all if you can turn your key calculation into a
> hardware operation in an fpga, a general purpose cpu generally has no
> hope of competing.

Now we just need fpga's to become as comodity as Opterons, then get the
kernel to use them.  :))

Doug.