2019-02-04 23:04:48
if the surfminer gets going, these could be a maybe https://www.anandtech.com/print/13928/owc-thunderblade-gen-2-external-ssds-2800-mbs-from-799 OWC Unveils Second-Gen ThunderBlade External SSDs: 2800 MB/s Starting at $799
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:04:51
not too cheap, though
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:05:39
What connections can handle that data rate?
Fireduck
2019-02-04 23:05:48
pci-e
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:06:13
but that goes over displayport since years
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:06:23
and now displayport goes over usb
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:06:27
aka. thunderbolt
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:06:48
silly name and a confusion of what kinds of cables to use, but it's just pci-e x4 under the hood
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:09:42
interesting. Does anyone make a compute external GPU using that?
Fireduck
2019-02-04 23:09:47
I could see that being a thing
Fireduck
2019-02-04 23:10:42
yes
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:12:05
alright then
Fireduck
2019-02-04 23:13:58
mostly purpose specific FPGA accelerators and such
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:14:04
like the intel machine vision stack stuff
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/industrial-automation/products/programmable/applications/machine-vision.html Machine vision FPGAs from Intel perform computer vision tasks such as image signal processing, video transport, conversion, compression and analysis.
Rotonen
2019-02-04 23:14:35
mostly stratix based
Rotonen