CS301 The chip of the future

[Quixoticism]

Wired news has put up an article about a special Floating-Point processor by ClearSpeed Technologies. From what is said in the interview is that for about $4000(I know that is a lot) you will increase your floating point calculations by 100milloin per second or 100 gigaflops.
This will allow future games, such as Half-Life3, to have features like fully deformable models, real life water effects, and other real world effects.
These chips are scheduled for release next year. While the starting cost if very high, in about five years or so they should be cheap enough to be in most new systems.

Check out the full article below.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html

 

[Steven Q Urkle]

yeah they will cost $25 000 to start, but other supercomputers cost millions.
a quote from the atricle "The new chip is a parallel processor capable of performing 25 billion floating-point operations per second, or 25 gigaflops."

you can add in pci cards wiht more CPUs on them to make it up to 600

 

[Quixoticism]

No they said that the setup with 6cards would cost $25,000. Just one would be $4000. Each of those cards had four processors.

 

[Hudson]

Sounds sweet.

/me waits....and waits....
/me wins lottery
/me no longer has to wait.

 

[Murray_H]

Originally posted by |CC|Hudson
Sounds sweet.

/me waits....and waits....
/me wins lottery
/me no longer has to wait.

/me waits one day longer and gets something 13 times better for 1/4000th of the price

 

[Quixoticism]

I forgot to mention the Floating Point capability of other processors so here you have it.
1800MHz Apple G5 FP~8 Gigaflops
2400MHz Xeon FP~9.5 Gigaflops

Sorry, entered the wrong data.

 

[nsxownzme]

Originally posted by MF-BoltressHL2
Wired news has put up an article about a special Floating-Point processor by ClearSpeed Technologies. From what is said in the interview is that for about $4000(I know that is a lot) you will increase your floating point calculations by 100milloin per second or 100 gigaflops.
This will allow future games, such as Half-Life3, to have features like fully deformable models, real life water effects, and other real world effects.
These chips are scheduled for release next year. While the starting cost if very high, in about five years or so they should be cheap enough to be in most new systems.

Check out the full article below.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html

It's funny reading this cause whenever something new comes out you always hear this shit, "This will allow future games, such as Half-Life3, to have features like fully deformable models, real life water effects, and other real world effects."
We all hear this when a new console or graphics card came out. I'd really have to see it for myself first.

 

[Quixoticism]

Never trust consoles, they are kiddy toys. Video cards have nothing to do with the actual physics of a program, they just make it look pretty.

 

[Woggy]

Never trust consoles, they are kiddy toys. Video cards have nothing to do with the actual physics of a program, they just make it look pretty.

But we arnt talking about video cards :bonce:
What I dont understand is the expansion CPU cards on the PCI. Why teh fark would you use PCI, its way too slow for a CPU. I mean videocards need their own special slot, and I fail to see how they can use PCI as a means of adding more CPUs.

 

[Quixoticism]

I know we aren't talking about video cards, I was just replying to nsxownzme.

I also do not understand why they would put it on a PCI slot. They might mean PCI Express.