Beowulf And Digital Signal Processing - Success!

[Kragen]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Rahul Dave wrote:
> Texas instrument is selling its (peak) 60MFlop chip TMS320C32 for $9.95,
> . . . --I believe egcs has a port to this series of
> chips.(cross-compiler)

I'm looking at the datasheet for the TMS320C6201 now.  It mentions that
it's a VLIW thing with eight functional units.  Is the TMS320C32 also
VLIW?  What kind of VLIW support exists in egcs today?

Does anyone know what the relationship between VLIW and Merced's EPIC
is?  Good EPIC support in gcc will be absolutely essential for Beowulfs
in 2001.

Kragen

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