Gentlemen, I am in no hurry whatsoever. I just threw up a trial balloon to see the comments. With the GPU speeds I thought it might be possible to take advantage of that and solve some issues of connectivity. thanks Stuart
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: > > Overall, you'd be better off just getting a Mesa card :) > > > Or, if you are not in a hurry, wait for the Beagle Board. Torsten is > working on > an RTAI port for it. I am hoping that the silence from him means he is > hard at > work, coding up the architecture-specific modules. The interface board > I have > just sent out for manufacturing will support not only my USC and UPC > boards, > but also the PPMC. If there's enough interest, I have thought about making > a "super" I/O card with a lot more I/O points, and letting the user > mount SSRs > on another panel. > > If we can get RTAI running on the Beagle, I think porting EMC over is > not going > to be such a big job. EMC already has the facility to run with the GUI > and motion > split on two computers. Getting the graphics-hungry Axis GUI off the > motion > controller should be a good thing, too. I don't know how this split > arrangement > deals with the location of the NGC files, but obviously they could be > stored on > another system with net file access (NFS or Samba). (I'm thinking that > moving > lots of large files around on the Beagle's SD card might eventually > lead to wear-out.) > I suppose you could attach a real hard drive to the USB port for the > volatile files. > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > -- Few will listen, Of the few who listen, fewer still will understand, Understanding does not mean believe, Of the handful who believe, most may not know what to do, Those who even know, how many will actually do ? And the rare ones who have done it....... Need not listen anymore. you can lead a person to knowledge but you cannot make him think ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
