On Wednesday February 25 at 09:45pm Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:48:29PM -0600, Raiz-mpx wrote: > > From: Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >The ultimate in SMP is, of course, Sun Computers. Hundreds of CPUs, > > >Hundreds of Gigs of RAM, Hundreds of thousands of dollars. > > ...or the cheaper alternative... racks of Playstation 2s, running > Linux. (Found this on dead-tree, but I'm sure Google would find it.) Very interesting, but how is this different than a stack of <generic cheap motherboard>? They can't be selling them at so much of a loss as to drop the price enough to compete with computers that have *no* sound, *no* video, *no* hard drive (diskless isn't too hard to set up), *no* case, et cetera. After all, I got a dual PPro board with 2x200mhz and 128mb ram for $30. If they are readily available (in quantity), I don't see getting a cheap enough computer to be an issue. > > You need to ask yourself just what kind of numerical modeling are > > you going to do? What programs are you going to use, will they be > > able to use both cpu's? > > FWIW tochnog (which is in Debian) can handle multiprocessor systems. I believe just about anything with threads is inherently SMP capable (please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) -- -johann koenig Today is Setting Orange, the 55th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3170 My public pgp key: http://mental-graffiti.com/pgp/johannkoenig.pgp
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