It's REALLY heating up out there...

Bert Freudenberg bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De
Wed Mar 3 14:04:27 UTC 1999


On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 ohshima at is.titech.ac.jp wrote:

>     - the memory bandwidth is 3.2GB/s. (four times bigger than
>       64 bit * 100Mhz bus)

This is exactly the same number SGI claims for their new Visual
Workstations (http://visual.sgi.com/).  These are NT machines with a
proprietary chipset called "Cobalt" that is optimized for memory
bandwidth.  If I followed the Squeak&bandwidth discussion correctly, these
would make awesome Squeak machines. 

/bert

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 Bert Freudenberg                                            Department of
                                                            Simulation and
 mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de                     Computer Graphics
 http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/bert.html        Univ. of Magdeburg





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