50 GFLOPS co-processor

[argyre]

Yes, it does support animation and rendering applications:

http://www.clearspeed.com/downloads/overview_csx600_board.pdf

I want to get one now!

[Lorecanth]

the only issue would be getting the various renderers to write for it... Think it'll be more likely for one of the big boys (mental ray/Renderman) to write for a more available co-processor like the cell.

[Maneswar]

This sounds a lot like the idea of the Cell setup, but this has 2 differences... the memory is expandable to a whopping 2GB per PE, and the memory controller is not as advanced as on teh Cell. I see this as a very similar approach, but instead of implementing custom interconnects as on the Cell, this uses the systems PCI bus. That could be a big problem, or it might not matter, depending on how much traffic the bus sees. But, I want a couple now :) . Wonder how much they want for these things. Would be great to offload renders onto 4 PE's.

Maneswar

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.