On the other hand, making efficient use of 240 MFlops in a single-
processor architecture is easier than 600 MFlops in a multi-processor
architecture.
If you've ever played with a Pulsar, it's very mysterious where all
the cycles are being used, since it doesn't seem to do a lot more
than a PC softsynth in real-time.
-- Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Jullian <mj@exbang.com>
To: saol-dev list <saol-dev@media.mit.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: SAINT on the web
>Also 240MFlops is a lot less than the 600 MFlops which, according to the
>Mykerinos web page itself (150MFlops for AD's SHARC), the creamware pulsar
>card should be able to provide with its 4 SHARCs, for the same price
(around $1500).
>
>Richard Dobson wrote:
>>
>> It certainly looks like a snappy card. One can do a lot with 240MFlops,
>> but probably not everything (real-time stereo phase vocoder, etc), so
>> the "no need to use multiple dsps" may yet prove to be a little
>> optimistic.
>>
>> I see they are announcing compatibility with Windows2000. Does this mean
>> they will include multi-channel drivers (e.g for an 8-channel WAVE_EX
>> file)? If so, I can add the details to my website.
>>
>> Richard Dobson
>>
>>
>> Giorgio Zoia wrote:
>> >
>> > At 10:04 AM 9/18/99 -0400, Michael Gogins wrote:
>> > >What is your chosen platform?
>> > >
>> > At 99% the execution engine will turn on the Philips TriMedia.
>> > Probably on the Mykerinos card by Merging Technologies
>> >
>> > http://www.merging.com
>> >
>> > http://www.merging.com/pr/pr_mykerinos_nab99.htm
>> >
>> > if you don't know it and want to take a look.
>> >
>> > Giorgio
>> >
>> > __________________________________________________________________
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>> >
>> > Integrated Systems Laboratory - DE/LSI - EPFL
>> > CH-1015 Lausanne - SWITZERLAND
>> >
>> > Phone: + 41 21 693 69 79 E-mail: Giorgio.Zoia@epfl.ch
>> > Fax: +41 21 693 46 63
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>
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>Michel
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