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

[Jeff Ramacher]

I think it would be really cool (but probably way too expensive to
develop) to move some of the AV processing off of the system CPU to a
special purpose AG pci board or something like that.  Does anyone know
if there's a "vic in a chip" kind of thing already?

Just my thoughts on a Friday afternoon...
--
jeffr

Todd Needham wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

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