From: Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Date: Mon Dec 29 1997 - 07:42:41 MST
(If you don't like Adobe's Acrobat Reader, RedHat's new GhostScript Viewer
(most recent free GhostScript can now distill ps2pdf and pdf2ps) is great
for these pesky .ps and .pdf files).
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
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