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@ 2009/02/11ELSA Japan, a popular AIB (Add-In-Board) company has announced the first product to incorporate Lucid Logix's Hydra 100 series ASIC. The product is aimed at HPC (High performance computing), the same space targetted by Nvidia's Tesla™ and AMD's Stream™ computing products.
If you are not yet familiar with Lucid Logix and their Hydra 100 series, chances are you will hear a lot about them in the near future. Lucid came into the spot light last year when they promised a linear scaling solution for multi-gpu setups. The fact that Intel was one of their key investors raised some eyebrows.
Multi-gpu setups are plagued with a lot of issues; unimpressive scaling (beyond 2 GPUs), limited rendering modes/profiles etc. is a simple one. Intercept the calls (DirectX or OpenGL) via software and load balance it dynamically across the number of available GPUs. This solution requires the presence of an ASIC, a "bridge" chip (hardware) and a software driver. In theory, the solution sounds promising but no public demo of the product has held the promise back.
If you are not yet familiar with Lucid Logix and their Hydra 100 series, chances are you will hear a lot about them in the near future. Lucid came into the spot light last year when they promised a linear scaling solution for multi-gpu setups. The fact that Intel was one of their key investors raised some eyebrows.
Multi-gpu setups are plagued with a lot of issues; unimpressive scaling (beyond 2 GPUs), limited rendering modes/profiles etc. is a simple one. Intercept the calls (DirectX or OpenGL) via software and load balance it dynamically across the number of available GPUs. This solution requires the presence of an ASIC, a "bridge" chip (hardware) and a software driver. In theory, the solution sounds promising but no public demo of the product has held the promise back.
