[Coco] CoCo Supercomputer Idea

[Mark McDougall]

On 12/01/2016 8:37 AM, Richard E. Crislip wrote:

> Also I was wondering is multiple DE-1's
> stacked together a viable solution?

On larger FPGA's (dev boards) you could simply instantiate multiple 
CoCo3FPGA cores with fast I/O interconnect for a more elegant solution, 
should you be interested in such a thing. You could even instantiate 
"headless" cores that don't waste FPGA logic on unneeded video hardware, 
for example.

Another possibility that people were looking at back when FPGA's were 
smaller was instantiating a single core but having it time-multiplex 
between multiple contexts. Of course you're trading off CPU speed but it 
would be something to consider if the aim is to produce a cluster of 
stock Coco hardware (or equivalent).

Regards,

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