<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/21 Greg Lindahl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindahl@pbm.com">lindahl@pbm.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:04:09PM -0700, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:<br>
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> We can guess, though.. It's an ARM running at 72 MHz, for which they<br>
> claim 64 Dhrystone MIPS. Some of those are going to be burned in<br>
> interprocess communication. The LPC2368 (which is what they use)<br>
> datasheet says it draws 125mA at 3.3V running at 72MHz. (I'm pretty<br>
> sure that doesn't include power to drive I/O pins, which is<br>
> separately supplied). That's about half a watt. So they're getting<br>
> about 128 DMIPS/Watt<br>
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In comparison, a Sheevaplug is $100, 1.2 Ghz ARM, 15 watts max for the<br>
whole thing, and you can use gigE networking and program it with MPI.<br>
I suppose it depends on how weird you like your hobbies to be :-)</blockquote><div><br>They extended the fast array of wimpy nodes to a matrix of wimpy nodes! :-)<br><br> </div></div><br>