video capture machine

[Nickolas S. Jovanovic (501) 569-8226]

Yes, the AMD Athlon is an x86 processor, but it has better floating
point performance than the PIII. But last time I checked, there were
still no dual-CPU motherboards available for the Athlon. They are
supposed to be available by the end of this year (Tyan Dolphin). The
original Athlons used Slot A motherboards, but the newer ones are
using Socket A.

So if dual-CPUs are important for the display and video capture
machines, then the Athlon isn't an option yet.

I have a 32-node Beowulf cluster made out of 600 MHz Athlons, and
the nodes perform very well (faster than the Chiba City PIII nodes at
Argonne). However, I haven't figured out how to get TCP to do efficient
message passing for parallel computing yet, however...

-Nick Jovanovic
 UALR


Robert Olson wrote:

> To my knowledge no one has done this. Is this an intel-compatible machine?
>
> --bob
>
> At 12:05 PM 9/13/2000 -0500, George Estes wrote:
> >  Does anyone have experience, or thoughts, with running the AMD Athlon 1000
> >SOCKETA processor(or any AMD processor) in the video capture machine.  What
> >are the disadvantages, at this point, of not using dual processors.
> >I apologize if this has already been discussed.
> >
> >George