AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box"

UncleFluffy writes "AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years." Ars has an article exploring why it's hard to program such GPUs for anything other than graphics applications.

well, it shouldn't be

[jimstapleton]

It shouldn't be a TERAble FLOP at the stores anyway. Nice performance...

OK, yes, bad pun, bad spelling, you can "-1 get a real sense of humor" me now.

Step 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Step 1: Put your chip in the box.

1 Teraflop you say?

[TheCreeep]

How much is that in BogoMIPS?

Re:1 Teraflop you say?

[minginqunt]

How much is that in BogoMIPS?

That's TWELFTY BAJILLION BogoMIPS. Per fortnight.

Re:Wow...

[tttonyyy]

imagine a Beow....ah, screw it.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of organically connected people imagining Beowulf clusters - I'd have Quake running on you at a squillian FPS in no time!

I could use it to program my automatic toaster

[BrentRJones]

which is fully connected to the Internet so that I can put my toast down or pop it up remotely.

Wait...from some of the other comments about electricity usage, I might be able to do away with the heating coils and use the circuits themself to toast. That would really be an environment plus. Wonder how it would affect the taste of the bread?

Step 2

[Saikik]

Step 2: Don't leave your box in Boston.

Chip in a Box

[natrius]

To all the fellas out there with geek friends to impress
It's easy to do, just follow these steps:
One: Cut a hole in a box
Two: Stick your chip in that box
Three: Make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
It's my chip in a box

Re:Notpick

[91degrees]

Yup. It's the law. Any post pointing out an error must have at least one error itself.

Future plans

[UnknowingFool]

Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years."

So I take it that AMD will be ready for Vista's successor?