[sdiy] Parallel processing clock design question

[ASSI]

On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:18, Glen wrote:
> 12,000?  With 12,000 uP chips, even the uP chips from my old Atari
> 800 could be used to make a fast computer.

... that could compute almost nothing of general interest. Would you 
rather have four horses or 1024 chicken pulling your plow?

> Hmmm...  I what would 12,000 of the new AMD 64 bit CPU's would be
> able to do?

For starters, they'd pull about 1MA peak current from your 1.2V supply. 
For more details, check project "Red Storm" (Sandia Labs and Cray, 
10368 Opterons, <2MW for power supply).


Achim.
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