[AG-TECH] Hardware news - towards a single machine node

[Todd Needham]

Given discussions regarding CPU requirements for a single machine node,
thought you might like to know I saw a pre-production dual P4 (1.7GHz
Foster) from Dell today: 64 & 32 bit PCI buses, built-in 1394, onboard
fast Ethernet.  The real news is that they expect to start shipping
these in May with a reasonable starting configuration under $4K.
Needless to say, 4 cameras and all those video streams are not going to
be an issue.

 

We also had discussions with Viewcast/Osprey about getting P4-optimized
drivers for their capture cards and we're following up separately with
their development team next week.  It would still be nice to get all of
this running on a single proc P4 to keep the cost down even further.

 

Todd Needham

Manager, Research Programs Group

Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com