I am not some insanely good programmer, or specialist in computer hardware. But with a card of this type - which is based on vector processors that were used in cruise missles, i'm sure this computing power could be hacked into being useful for something besides SETI@home. Just wait for our friend who hacked the iOpener machine gets his hands on this. If all it does is calculate vectors, maybe it could be hacked into being something useful like AltiVec that the G4s have. Imagine having a 6chip board that gobbles away at vector graphics.:) Just wondering how well our lovely 33mhz PCI bus will be if it does get hacked into something as such.
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I am not some insanely good programmer, or specialist in computer hardware. But with a card of this type - which is based on vector processors that were used in cruise missles, i'm sure this computing power could be hacked into being useful for something besides SETI@home. Just wait for our friend who hacked the iOpener machine gets his hands on this. If all it does is calculate vectors, maybe it could be hacked into being something useful like AltiVec that the G4s have. Imagine having a 6chip board that gobbles away at vector graphics. :) Just wondering how well our lovely 33mhz PCI bus will be if it does get hacked into something as such.
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I'm a newb when it comes to posting here. Give me some slack.