[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.
Bill Bradford
geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 13 15:31:58 CDT 2001
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:27:45PM -0400, David Michaud wrote:
> What about the Xilinx FPGA reconfigurable supercomputers? Ability to do
> a single function _really_ fast, and reconfigure itself to do something
> else... _really_ fast. Of course, this is scalar, not vector. Not sure
> about the feasibility, but it's certainly an idea.
Haven't companies been announcing vaporware "infinitely faster" machines
based on this for the past 2-3 years now? I dont think anyone
has delivered PRODUCT yet..
Bill
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Bill Bradford
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