Low cost cluster

Jonathan Morton chromi at chromatix.demon.co.uk
Tue Feb 25 02:51:00 CET 2003


>  > refurbished PowerMac.  I still might.  The cluster would give me an
>>  aggregate 2500 MFLOPS, while a previous-model Mac would give me 3500
>
>how did you get to that #? just wondering. If you're counting on Altivec
>that's a mistake.

I count Altivec because I'm confident the Apple-modified compiler is 
capable of producing code for my present algorithm.  Even if it 
can't, I can write it in fairly easily - I'm no stranger to PPC code.

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