Re: Gamecube cluster?

Jesse Krijthe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just wondering: Would be worth the effort to build a cluster of
> gamecubes (just as they did with the ps2) and then let it run a
> something like the distributed.net project? How good is the gc at these
> kinds of calculations? And if not distributed.net, what other project
> would be better to run on a gc?

Nothing. Testing dnetc on my cube gives me about half the performance of 
a duron 1800. Its simply too expensive to buy a cube and an ethernet 
adapter.

Also currently the cube only supports 10Mbit and thus you do not want to 
do any clustering that needs shared memory or anything that needs some 
bandwith.


just my 2 cents

kind regards Philip


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