Start-up Could Kick Opteron into Overdrive

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that a new start-up, DRC Computer, has created a reprogrammable co-processor that can slot directly into Opteron sockets. This new product has the potential to boost the Opteron chips well ahead of their Xeon-based competition. From the article: 'Customers can then offload a wide variety of software jobs to the co-processor running in a standard server, instead of buying unique, more expensive types of accelerators from third parties as they have in the past.'"

Comments

Quality?

[wetfeetl33t]

Yup, seems like a pretty neat piece of hardware. The only thing I'd be worried about is quality. All of these alternative processors usually seem to good to be true, until you use them. At work, we ended up buying 15 computers with a similiar item, and they have been nothing but trouble. They underperform, they break, etc. Granted, this may be a high quality product, but I sure won't buy one right away.

Seti stats...

[way2trivial]

previously I'd decided I was willing to pay a hunnert bucks per free slot on my machine for boards that could process boinc faster..

(they'd need fans though)

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