Re: Deadlock problems in binaryswap spu?

Brian Paul <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.chromium.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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


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