Re: 64-bit PCI slots
Maurice Hilarius (maurice@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca)
Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:17:41 -0700
At 09:05 hrs. 12-10-96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I've been looking at the PC164 boards being offered by DCG, and they come
>with two 64-bit PCI slots as well as two standard 32-bit slots.
>
>I've looked around, but I've never seen a 64-bit PCI bus on any
>Intel-based board; I assume they don't exist (yet). Are there any cards
>out there that actually take advantage of 64-bit PCI? I'm sure graphics
>performance would be pretty damn good, but as far as I know there isn't a
>single card made for the extended slot.
>
>Thanks,
>Ryan
Digital, for one, has some cards which plug into the 64 bit bus, and allow a
number of machines to share memory and other resources. This is part of
their "TrueCluster" solution. This allows for some rather high-performance
parallel computing.
Cheers,
Maurice
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