Re: Gamecube cluster?
Jesse Krijthe <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.game-cube.devel |
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On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:16, Philip Lawatsch wrote: > 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 > > Another thing which sould be taken into account is how much power it uses: gc uses 12Vx3.5A= 42 W while a duron system will probably uses more. If you are correct about the 50% compared to the duron on d.net, then I too believe it will be too expensive because a gc (100 or perhaps 60 euro) bba (55 euro) and memorycard (10 euro) x2 = 330 euro is probably more expensive then a duron or athlon or whatever x86 system. Jesse Krijthe [email protected] > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. > Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - > digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, > unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com > _______________________________________________ > Gc-linux-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gc-linux-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com