AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box"

UncleFluffy writes "AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years." Ars has an article exploring why it's hard to program such GPUs for anything other than graphics applications.

Comments

well, it shouldn't be

[jimstapleton]

It shouldn't be a TERAble FLOP at the stores anyway. Nice performance...

OK, yes, bad pun, bad spelling, you can "-1 get a real sense of humor" me now.

Step 1

[Anonymous Coward]

Step 1: Put your chip in the box.

1 Teraflop you say?

[TheCreeep]

How much is that in BogoMIPS?

Re:1 Teraflop you say?

[minginqunt]

How much is that in BogoMIPS?

That's TWELFTY BAJILLION BogoMIPS. Per fortnight.

Step 2

[Saikik]

Step 2: Don't leave your box in Boston.

Chip in a Box

[natrius]

To all the fellas out there with geek friends to impress
It's easy to do, just follow these steps:
One: Cut a hole in a box
Two: Stick your chip in that box
Three: Make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
It's my chip in a box

Re:Notpick

[91degrees]

Yup. It's the law. Any post pointing out an error must have at least one error itself.

Future plans

[UnknowingFool]

Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years."

So I take it that AMD will be ready for Vista's successor?