HYDRA: Platform Independant CrossFire, SLI
Every now and again a company surfaces with a cool bit of technology and I can't help but think to myself: "why haven't I heard of this before?" A company called Lucid has this week shown off just such a piece of kit, in the form of the HYDRA Engine, the company's own take on multi-GPU scaling. The basic premise: allow any combination of graphics cards to be installed in a system and get performance scaling that matches the combined independent processing power. Think Crossfire or SLI, but independent of the hardware used.
Jako interesantno. U pitanju je tehnologija koja omogucava nesto slicno kao SLI ili Crossfire, ali nezavisno od platforme ili graficke karte i koristi dosta drugaciju tehnologiju. Npr. moguce je upariti GTX280 i HD4870.
http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/685
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15367
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3385
Hydra sve vise privlaci paznju, ovo bi mogla da bude odlicna stvar.
Zvuci previse dobro da bi bilo istinito.
Problem mogu biti AMD i Nvidia ako odbiju da pruze podrsku ovome i ogranice rad njihovim kartama pod Hydrom, posto to ugrozava njihova MultiGPU resenja.
Drugi problem moze biti zaostatak celog sistema za grafickim kartama. Procesori i sada predstavljaju usko grlo, sta bi tek bilo sa ovim.
Every now and again a company surfaces with a cool bit of technology and I can't help but think to myself: "why haven't I heard of this before?" A company called Lucid has this week shown off just such a piece of kit, in the form of the HYDRA Engine, the company's own take on multi-GPU scaling. The basic premise: allow any combination of graphics cards to be installed in a system and get performance scaling that matches the combined independent processing power. Think Crossfire or SLI, but independent of the hardware used.
Jako interesantno. U pitanju je tehnologija koja omogucava nesto slicno kao SLI ili Crossfire, ali nezavisno od platforme ili graficke karte i koristi dosta drugaciju tehnologiju. Npr. moguce je upariti GTX280 i HD4870.
http://www.beyond3d.com/content/news/685
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15367
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3379
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3385
Hydra sve vise privlaci paznju, ovo bi mogla da bude odlicna stvar.
Zvuci previse dobro da bi bilo istinito.
Problem mogu biti AMD i Nvidia ako odbiju da pruze podrsku ovome i ogranice rad njihovim kartama pod Hydrom, posto to ugrozava njihova MultiGPU resenja.
Drugi problem moze biti zaostatak celog sistema za grafickim kartama. Procesori i sada predstavljaju usko grlo, sta bi tek bilo sa ovim.
