AVR-Chat

----- Original Message -----
From: "David VanHorn" <dvanhorn@cedar.net>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>; <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 01:38
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Semi manufacturers ?


>
> >
> >I have to process a text file that can be up to 10Tb in
size, the data
> >is only ascii, so I can not see the point for a larger
sized CPU. Once a
> >  string is found, all it needs to do is hand the string
up to the next
> >CPU for serving.
>
> Sounds like a job for a beowulf cluster.

Well, if you want to develop semiconductors, why not a RAM
chip with a simple processor built in?  The processor would
have its own small RAM for holding its programmes and a
means of entering those programmes, causing them to run, and
getting results off-chip.   You'd load all the little CPU's
in parallel and let them loose, each one looking at the data
on its own chip.  Now I'm not talking a CPU with some RAM,
I'm talking 256 megabytes of RAM and maybe 4K of entirely
separate RAM for the CPU's code.  Since you are basically
using it to search for patterns, the CPU could be optimised
for that.

I actually think there might be a market for that kind of
thing.

Erikc  - firewevr@airmail.net
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