Re: Puzzled
8 Core CPU at 2.5GHz with actually quite good floating-point performance (the FPU is significantly upgraded over a standard Jaguar core) as well as 1280 compute cores on a 256-bit GDDR5 bus at 5.5GHz, and all for around US$399? Not cost effective for computation? You cannot be serious.
You simply cannot build an equivalently powerful Linux box for twice that much! It is still a very 'useful and cost effective' proposition for computation, as well as a bargain desktop PC if Linux can be installed and if a fully hardware accelerated graphics driver can be written. Those are the big 'ifs' at this stage, but the value proposition here is potentially very large.
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