Sun Microsystems Inc has a floating point accelerator for its Sparc-based Sun-4 workstations that it says improves floating point performance 100% or more. The TI8847-based is rated at 2.2 MFLOPS in single precision Linpack work. It is out now at $3,000 for the Sun-4/110 system.
Sun Microsystems Inc has a floating point accelerator for its Sparc-based Sun-4 workstations that it says improves floating point performance 100% or more. The TI8847-based is rated at 2.2 MFLOPS in single precision Linpack work. It is out now at $3,000 for the Sun-4/110 system.