[clue-tech] KillerNIC

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Fri Nov 17 12:41:01 MST 2006


erik at ezolan.com wrote:
> By complete accident I clicked on a banner ad at one of the tech sites I
> visit. And I came across this:
>
> http://www.killernic.com/KillerNic/
>
> It's a network card that ofloads all the network processing from the CPU,
> aimed at gamers.
>
> So I started looking around for a review of the card, and found this:
> http://hardware.gotfrag.com/portal/story/34683/
>
> The reason I'm bringing it up to the list, is this "The NPU operates at
> 400MHz, and in conjunction with the 64MB of on-board DDR memory, is
> capable of running a streamlined version of Linux."
That's interesting.  So I guess I could buy as many of those as I have
slots for and make my own computing cluster.

Angelo




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