Re: beowulf clusters

There are 2 options to running csound in parallel:

	1. Networked CSound

		Send CSound UDP messages etc using patches that have
been previously posted, or use netcat and -L stdin . Then you send your
score events out to various CSounds and remultiplex the audio later.

	2. Split your score up

		If you have a long score, simply split it up based on
many computers you have leave a few overlap notes to deal with long
running instruments. Recombine later.

	CSound is single threaded (unless you use the GUI). Marsys might
be usable in parallel now but I'm not sure if that code is released,
they have UDP and TCP sources and sinks.

	abram

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Atte Andr=E9 Jensen wrote:

> gerald wrote:
> > Anyone on this list ever try to setup csound on a beowulf cluster or =
any
> > other cluster environment?  In order to take advantage of a cluster,
> > software needs to be written for parallel computing.  Is csound
> > designed for parallel processes or does it use serial methods? =20
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