Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Hyper-fast coprocessor plugs into Opteron socket
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> | This is not a hoax. A Silicon Valley company has started shipping an
> | FPGA-based coprocessor designed to plug right into an open "socket 940"
> | location on a standard multiprocessor AMD Opteron motherboard running
> | Linux.
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> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7630000844.html
Sounds cool... but what it fails to explain the practical value to an
everyday Joe that this would be... Also, at $20,000 per copy I don't think
I'll be needing one very soon...
The one thing I would like, however, is a similar type of hardware as above,
but loaded with an upgradeable Java Virtual Machine... I thing having a
java coprocessor would be a useful thing. Atleast to me, that is...
Cheers, Roy. Nice post.
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Jerry McBride
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