SETI Accelerator PCI board...

[keithr]

http://www.hitbox.com/cgi-bin/hitbox...com/index.html



[This message has been edited by keithr (edited 07-30-2000).]

[Byte 2.0]

EDIT:IT is a good idea, however it is a hoax, they admit that in the truth section....they did a really good job too....

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problem, it say the board will do a seti work unit in about 15 hours, a K6-2/500 can do them in as little as 12 hours 3 minutes....

So just my 2 cents it probably isn't that good...However I would like to try it and see..

The main thing seti@home needs in on die cache...really needs more then 512K on die, however once you pass 1 meg on die cache their is no more proformance increase. Seti and work unit is more then 512 k in size and less then 1 meg in size...after you have the right amount of cache, your processors MHZ does the rest....

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[This message has been edited by byte (edited 07-31-2000).]

[This message has been edited by byte (edited 07-31-2000).]

[keithr]

Yep, it's hoax alright.

They did have me going for about 60 seconds though. Must admit I was a little suspicious of the thing being powered by surplus Russian military microprocessors.

Pretty clever though.......

Keith


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[This message has been edited by keithr (edited 08-01-2000).]

[Byte 2.0]

keithr

I jumped in reading about everything without reading the truth section. I was ready to sign up as a beta tester. I filled out the form. Then I saw the truth section and thought I had better read it first. I felt a little silly. But think of this. Out of those 100,000 hits they had I bet 25 to 50 percent would have really ordered that...It is a good idea, if someone every built it.. Not just for seti, it would be usefull for any number cruching. After this I bet someone will invent something very close to it that will work with any number cruching program like seti or 3D graphics....

you can bet it will cost alot more. However they found a market for a product that no one has. Some one will try and fill that market

this is off topic, but check you signature.
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