FPGAs and Heat (Re: Paranoid Musings)

David Lesher wb8foz at nrk.com
Thu Aug 1 18:42:11 PDT 1996


> 
> Timothy C. May writes:
> 
> > This was a company in Bowie, Maryland, closely linked with the NSA and with
> > the "supercomputer centers." 
> 
> That's one of the things that killed Thinking Machines.  It turned out
> that a standard supercomputer with PIM chips for memory could give the
> same performance for less money.  

See:

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/beuwolf/beuwolf.html

Don is doing interesting things with less...

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