Re: Deadlock problems in binaryswap spu?
Brian Paul <[email protected]>
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Joel Welling wrote: >>Brian Paul wrote: >>Next, could you remove the pack SPU? That is, just put the binary >>swap SPUs on the application nodes. That'd save a network hop. I'm >>assuming you have suitable graphics hardware on the app nodes. >> > > Ah, that's the rub- the app nodes have no graphics hardware. These > are supercomputer nodes, and they're being assigned 'helper' nodes > with graphics hardware on the fly. I was hoping that using this > configuration would allow me a larger 'fan-in' between app nodes and > rendering nodes, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case. People have talked about doing rendering / compositing in software (with Mesa) on the supercomputer nodes. But given all the different factors involved, I'm not sure you'd ever come out ahead. -Brian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642