The folks at Clearspeed are offering a new PCI-Express application-accelerator/coprocessor called the CSX600 that clocks in at 50 GFLOPS (or 25 GFLOPS sustained.)
Claiming to be world's fastest 64-bit floating point processor, this could become an amazing addition to your workstation (and eventually, desktop.)
Note that with all PCI-Express standard boards, you are only limited to the number of slots you have available--thus, if your mobo has three slots (we wish!,) you can use a high-end ATI or N-Vidia card, AND a pair of these babies and clock in at 100 GFLOPS off their boards.
Obviously, they are offering it for a wide range of applications that can use Floating Point Operations--including (in our case at Toob) High Res Game Compiling, HD Video Editing, Digital Content Creation (animate like Pixar and Dreamworks, anyone?) and HD-Quality on-air broadcast graphics.
Refusing to be pinned down on price, they note that they will be competitive--which for enthusiast machines means we'll be waiting for a while yet to see these come down below the cost of a high-end HD Display. Bets Anyone? Huh? [We also bet they won't throw us a loaner unit. Ha!]
But, all told, this may mean a great deal to any of us that want killer geometry transforms for products like Doom 3 or Unreal 2007.
Download an overview of the CSX600 via .PDF here.
PS. You climate modeling, nano-building, life-sciences folks might like it too--but they made it for us display freaks. Grin.
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Posted by: Fuck off | 25 June 2008 at 16:24