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ATi FireStream Sighted



I happened upon a retail boxed 1GB ATi FireStream today and I decided to take a few pictures. The existence of this card was first noticed in the Linux drivers for a FireGL 7350 over at Beyond3D about a week ago and from what I've seen, their assessment was pretty accurate.

The card is indeed based on R580 with a board layout nearly identical to the FireGL 7350 including the 1GB of ram. The box I saw contained only this card and a driver cd which had been burnt and was labeled as being a beta. Also, I found the label on the CD interesting: "FireSTREAM Enterprise Stream Processor".

http://www.gpureview.com/ati-firestr...ticle-404.html

"ATI has invited reporters to a Sept. 29 event in San Francisco at which it will reveal "a new class of processing known as Stream Computing." The company has refused to divulge much more about the event other than the vague "stream computing" reference. The Register, however, has learned that a product called FireStream will likely be the star of the show."

"The card is indeed based on R580 with a board layout nearly identical to the FireGL 7350 including the 1GB of ram," he wrote. "The box I saw contained only this card and a driver cd which had been burnt and was labeled as being a beta. Also, I found the label on the CD interesting: 'FireSTREAM Enterprise Stream Processor.'"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/19/ati_gpgpu/

"ATI GPUs in concert with the PeakStream software platform are giving companies the ability to process data at speeds they've only dreamt of until now," said Dave Orton, CEO and president of ATI Technologies Inc. "Today's graphics processors are capable of processing far more than just graphics applications - they are fully capable parallel processors ideally suited for a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications. Using the full-featured PeakStream Platform, companies can now easily program ATI graphics processors for accelerated processing of non-graphics tasks to drive faster and better informed business decisions resulting in real competitive advantages."

http://www.peakstreaminc.com/news_ev...es/091806a.php