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From: raja@bombay.cps.msu.edu (Narayan S. Raja)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Need vision accellerator
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:13:32 GMT
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In article <12811@hubcap.clemson.edu>, (Bill Ross) writes:
 
<     We run a variety of computer vision tasks (fft's, neural nets,
<     and other typical vision operations) on our Sun Sparcstations.
<     In many cases, we find that the Sparcs are too slow to do what
<     we want to get done.  In particular, the floating point is often
<     inadequate.  It seems that there should be a spiffy S-bus card
<     that can solve all our problems.  Does anyone have any suggestions?


About other add-ons I have no idea, but Sun
itself apparently has an add-on called "taac".
Output of "man taac" is appended.

**Pl. summarize responses** to this newsgroup.

Thanks in advance,


Narayan Sriranga Raja.


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TAAC(4S)         DEVICES AND NETWORK INTERFACES          TAAC(4S)

NAME
     taac - Sun applications accelerator

DESCRIPTION
     The taac interface supports the optional TAAC-1 Applications
     Accelerator.   This  add-on  device  is  composed of a very-
     long-instruction-word computation engine,  coupled  with  an
     8MB  memory  array.  This memory area can be used as a frame
     buffer or as storage for large data sets.
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