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Igor Stasenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 21/10/2007, Peter William Lount <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peter@smalltalk.org"><peter@smalltalk.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
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<pre wrap="">Call me a cynical bastard but unless I can go down to the local
mega-mart and buy one for $1,000, or even $10,000, in a usable form, it
doesn't even exist, period.
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<pre wrap="">How about we just say that your point of view is very practical... So if
Tilera were to make it's 64 processor chip board for a PC available for
less than $1,000 you'd buy it? Or would it really have to be from the
local mega-mart too rather than direct?
When Tilera makes their Tile-64 processor available to anyone then
you'll be able to buy it and shove a Tilera Tile-64 board
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tilera.com/products/boards.php">http://tilera.com/products/boards.php</a>) into your PC to run with a 64
processor chip!!! In fact they claim to be able to put two 64 processor
chips on one expansion board.
Let's all contact Tilera (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tilera.com">http://tilera.com</a>) politely and ask them how
much a development system card is and when they will ship it. If you are
serious tell them you'd like to buy one today and have them ship it today!
Tilera Corporation
1900 West Park Drive
Suite 290
Westborough, Massachusetts 01581
Phone: (508) 616-9300
Fax: (508) 616-9306
They also have a contact form.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tilera.com/company/contact_form.php">http://tilera.com/company/contact_form.php</a>. If you are serious about
buying a board to develop parallel applications with ask them for a
sales contact.
It's getting real folks. Let's get Smalltalk ready to handle the new
large N-Core hardware wave that is upon us!!!
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Btw, just read here (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8981295285.html):">http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8981295285.html):</a>
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Availability
The Tile64 is available now, in three variants differentiated by I/O
mix and clock. Pricing starts at $435 in 10,000 quantities, the
company said. Tilera's iLib and MDE tools, and TilExpress-64 board are
also available at undisclosed pricing.
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I think it will be less than $1000 for end user. Affordable price for 64 CPUs :)
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Hi,<br>
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So far they haven't replied to my repeated queries to purchase a
development board. They also seem to be only focused on a few
specialized vertical markets. That is why I'm asking any of you
interested in their technology to inquire as well. Thanks.<br>
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Peter<br>
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