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Hi have you planning for the 2009 year to use the Hydra engine developed by Lucid Logix on the future mainboards and GPUs ?
1) I will show you the HYDRA Engine chip by Lucid logix. Is a
real-time distributed processing engine placed between a PC's chipset
and GPUs, the HYDRA Engine smartly
directs graphics processing traffic between the GPUs, using several
intelligent parallelization algorithms. The result? , better
graphics, more responsiveness. When you scale two or more graphics
cards, the HYDRA Engine helps you
achieve a near-linear to above-linear increase in performance.
2) The HYDRA Engine is the first solution that "plays well with others."
Unlike other technologies, it is completely compatible with all gaming
applications, chipsets and GPUs from any vendor, so you can develop a
totally customizable PC solution. Mix and match elements into your
gaming system to achieve the price and performance level that's just
perfect for you. And developers no longer have to write games and
applications specific to a chip. Whether the API is OpenGL or Direct3D,
the HYDRA Engine can tackle both.
There are 2 configuration (1) a chip on motherboard (2) as an Addin board .
I
suggest you the addin board configuration because can support up to 4
GPUs; if used with the rv7770 GPU chip can achieve a theoretical
performance of 4,8 Teraflops. I will suggest you to make a addin board
with 40nm configuration with the new rv880 chip
3) Another point is
to consider the Crossfire link limitation a mother with 4 PCI 16X slots
can support only 2 4870x2 card not 4 4870X2 card due to Crossfire
link , driver and chipset limitation. with a Hydra Engine Addin board
you can mount 4 GPU in one Addin board and if you have a motherboard
with 4 PCIEX16 slots you are able to install up to 4 addin Hydra engine
board for a total of 16 GPUs on a single motherboard with a theoretical
performance of 19,2 Teraflops WITHOUT( chipset limitation, hard rs
development of drivers and Crossfire link limitations and drivers issue)
this is the web link where you can found more information about the Hydra Engine chip

Features of Hydra Engine http://www.lucidlogix.com/technology/index.html
Technology Overview http://www.lucidlogix.com/technology/technologies.html
Distributed Processing Workload http://www.lucidlogix.com/technology/distributed.html
A technology webpage showing the hydra engine features http://techgage.com/article/lucid_hydra_…pu_technology/2

I wait your response ; i stay tuned