10x to 20x and some cases 100x to 1000x faster performance!!

[Strongbow]

Mitro take note! :D

I've just been reading up on a coprocessor that slots directly into a spare Opteron socket. It then utilises the HyperTransport to direct requests and it is specifically for 2-way or above Opteron motherboards. Apparently they only use 10-20watts per socket as well but can give you anything between 10 to 20x the performance and if the application is optimized can give 100x to 1000x performance increase! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Obviously you would need to reprogram BOINC and possibly WUs to utilise it but what a great idea...

Have a read here, clever stuff...

http://www.drccomputer.com/pages/products.html

...and now the bad part, "Each DRC module will cost around $4,500 this year and likely drop to around $3,000 next year"

[mitro]

Right... All I need is some a few 8-way Opty boards, a few dozen 285s, a handful of these $4500 do-hickies, then I need to take over all the Boinc projects and recode the whole deal. I'll get right on it. And which bank should I rob?

[Strongbow]

LOL

I hear Citibank are struggling with their security these days!!! oops, should I have said that [-X 8-[