Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:17:23AM +, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > I agree with you.. > But proving that you can build a HPC using whatever, be it PS/3s or Furbys or > nVidia cards, if you can't find people to program it, that's a problem. > > (As someone who proposed building a cluster with Ardu

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Skylar Thompson
On 05/11/2013 10:39 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > > Hard to beat $19/node plus the cost of some wire and maybe a USB hub to > talk to them all. http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html > rPi is in the same price range > > > > So, for, say, $200-300, you could give a student a platform with 8-10 > nod

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 5/11/13 9:55 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: > >On May 11, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> On 5/11/13 2:06 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: >> >>> >>> >> >> I don't think a Arduino cluster is something you would build to do >> actual >> computation. Just imagine.. All

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 5/11/13 1:56 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: > >On May 10, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > >> >> On 5/8/13 6:41 PM, "Prentice Bisbal" >> wrote: >> >>> On 05/08/2013 09:41 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: The game console business is a strange one, and I don't know that it has >

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On May 11, 2013, at 6:29 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > > > > On 5/11/13 2:06 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: > >> >> On May 11, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >> >>> I agree with you.. >>> But proving that you can build a HPC using whatever, be it PS/3s or >>> Furbys or nVidia cards, i

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
On 5/11/13 2:06 AM, "Vincent Diepeveen" wrote: > >On May 11, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > >> I agree with you.. >> But proving that you can build a HPC using whatever, be it PS/3s or >> Furbys or nVidia cards, if you can't find people to program it, >> that's a problem. >> >> (A

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On May 11, 2013, at 2:17 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > I agree with you.. > But proving that you can build a HPC using whatever, be it PS/3s or > Furbys or nVidia cards, if you can't find people to program it, > that's a problem. > > (As someone who proposed building a cluster with Arduinos, I

Re: [Beowulf] El Reg: AMD reveals potent parallel processing breakthrough

2013-05-11 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On May 10, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > On 5/8/13 6:41 PM, "Prentice Bisbal" > wrote: > >> On 05/08/2013 09:41 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >>> The game console business is a strange one, and I don't know that >>> it has >>> much to bring to the HPC world (whoa, that will provo