Beowulf And Digital Signal Processing - Success!

[Kragen]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Huntress, Gary B. wrote:
> You are, of course, absolutely correct.  I would never propose that a
> 486, or even a pentium is a replacement for a decent DSP (I think that
> there are several DSPs that can do 1k complex FFTs in single digit micro
> seconds).  DSPs are great for embedded work once the algorithms have
> been fully developed.  I still like to do all my research in a friendly
> workstation environment.   

Ideal would be a TMS320C6201 with Linux, or at least ELKS, running on
it.  ;)

(For the uninitiated, as I was five minutes ago: these chips cost $25,
use fairly reasonable amounts of power, and pull a gigaflop if you're
doing nothing but FFTs.)

The TigerSHARC is a PCI board with four TI DSPs on it that some guys at
some university built to do their ray-tracing faster.

Kragen

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