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- From: john@sg25.aud.temple.edu (John W. Schwegler)
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- Subject: Re: Coprocessor Board for Indigo
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.065030.17772@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 06:50:30 GMT
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- David M. Senseman (senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu) wrote:
- : In article <tp1mpss@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- : >In <BzGoHr.8nH@csn.org> kenw@teal.csn.org (Ken Waletzki) writes:
- : >
- : >| Can anyone tell me the names & numbers of ANY 3rd party co. that sells
- : >| a co-processor CPU board that can be plugged into the GIO bus?
- : >
- : >None that I know of. What kind of CPU co-processor are you
- : >looking for, and what is the intended use? Perhaps there is
- : >another answer...
- : >
-
- : How about another Indigo CPU card. I would like to do some REAL time
- : data acquisition where I could dedicate one CPU just to data acquisition.
- : I know than on a multi-processor machine I can do this but it would
- : be nice to do on an Indigo :-)
-
- What sort of throughput are you looking for? I'm currently using an
- IRIS 4D/35G for real-time acquisition and processing (soon to move to
- an Indigo R4000/XS24Z), with rates of about 200 kpoints/sec. I use three
- different processes with non-degrading priorities, and it works very well.
-
- John Schwegler
- john@sg25.aud.temple.edu
- Temple U. Dept. of Auditory Research
-