Texas Instruments Integrates Copper with Low-k Material (aerogel) to
Achieve Dramatic Reductions in Both Resistance and Capacitance. TI claims
this technology scales to 0.5 Transistors/die and GHz clocks, wants to use
it in their next-generation DSPs.
http://www.ti.com/research/docs/c97091.htm
more also under:
http://www.ti.com/research/docs/Iedmpres.pdf
Digital Light Processing (my long-time favourite: should be great for
ubiquitous beamers and head-up VR and augmented reality).
http://www.ti.com/dlp/docs/business/resources/white/index.html
TI's new 'C6x family member claims to deliver 1.6 GOPs, 1 GFlop @200 MHz.
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/dsps/products/c67x/index.htm
The 'C6x family (which delivers now what Merced will in the future)
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/dsps/products/c6x/index.htm
Other DSP's by TI:
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/dsps/literatu.htm
news:comp.dsp
Xilinx' VirtexTM Series of FPGAs 1,000,000 System Gates at 100+ MHz in 1998
http://www.xilinx.com/spot/virtexspot.htm
news:comp.arch.fpga
http://www.altera.com
http://www.lucent.com/micro/fpga/
http://www.synopsys.com
Parallel Processing for Linux HOWTO
http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/PPHOWTO/pphowto.html
Communication latency has been identified as a bottleneck for many
applications (it certainly is for molecular dynamics). For el cheapo
low-latency networking, check out the PAPERS project:
http://garage.ecn.purdue.edu/~papers/
The original legend
http://www.beowulf.org
ciao,
'gene