G'day All I'm in the process of configuring up some equipment for a couple of new room nodes.
The problem I face is deciding on what type of machine I will need to power some of the new "Features" that we may be confronted with over the next couple of years. I guess what I am really interested in knowing is the computational requirements of some of the "newer" video codec's. For example, has any done testing on the following??? * H264 and/or Mpeg 4 * DV * HDTV * Others that may be used in the future What sort of CPU processing power have you tested with, have you found that the encoding it the computational intensive part, or is the decoding pretty computational intensive as well??? Knowing this will determine the types of machines required for video capture and video display side of things for an Access Grid. The reason for this question is that a single CPU, Dual Core computer seem to currently have the best bang for buck value. I would be interested to know if you personally think that (for example) a dual core 2.8Ghz workstation would be capable enough to handle many of the above situations. I guess another thing to consider, is that if the encoding side of things is the most computational intensive part, then would using 2 machines for capture be better than say using a dual CPU machine (Around the same price). I would love to hear people's thoughts, comments and various tests you have performed. Thanks for your time, Jason. -------------------------------------------- Jason Bell, B.I.T. B. Info. Tech. (Honours) Student Network Engineer Information Technology Division Central Queensland University High Performance Computing Support Officer Central Queensland University Research Assistant to the Nonlinear Intelligent Systems Research Group Faculty of Informatics & Communication Central Queensland University E-mail : [email protected] Phone : 07 4930 9229 -------------------------------------------- Patience is a virtue. But if I wanted Patience, I would have become a Doctor. --------------------------------------------
