Re: Gamecube cluster?

I shouldn;t have used the word cluster because what I actually meant was
just a bunch of gamecubes connecting running the d.net client connecting
to one proxy. What about other projects such as seti? Do the need a lot
of memory and bandwith? And would these calculations be easier for the
gc?
 

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 17:11, Philip Lawatsch wrote:
> Jesse Krijthe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Dnet is actually one of the better "cluster" application for the cube. 
> Everything else will probably want to have way more memory than the 
> cubes 40 megs and especially more bandwith than the 10 mbit available.
> So, I doubt that a gamecube cluster will pay off, unless you consider 
> the geek factor :)
> 
> 
> kind regards -ph-
> 
> 
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