Terry Christophersen wrote: >> I always surf the net while the CNC programs are running, I see nothing >> >wrong with that. >> >I play music and watch youtube videos also. > What is the hourly rate for watching ytube? > I need to know so I can tell my customers.This sounds like more > fun than running another machine. > > Just kidding
Perfectly reasonable question ... I have a TV out in the workshop ... don't necessarily watch, but it's background noise. But it's another example of kit that does other things such as play web videos and browse the web. I don't need that on the CNC kit :) Yes a dual/quad core motherboard can quite happily run all the CNC stuff on one core and graphics on another. I was battling a problem on Monday with a machine which was behaving as if it was overloaded. It kept freezing. A bit of a pain when it was serving web pages to 50 other users in real time, running announcements and other displays and so on. Not sure what was going on, but there have been network changes over the weekend, and a new 'anti-virus' update and so the question was 'Where IS the fault?'. It had been running fine for years, and after complaints to the IT department, I dropped in on site yesterday only to find the machine running fine again! In the 24 hours since it's done less than 30 minutes of work :) 15 minutes per core. Still no explanation as to what had been changed over night :( Just how much processing power is being wasted world wide? I'd even ask how much more power is wasted running W7 ... the problem machine is still running W2k happily, but I am building an XP powered version with the same motherboard so we can actually compare that. The legacy hardware does not (YET) have a Linux alternative but similarly it will not run on W7 ... Reason for suggesting two computers rather than two cores was simply that running several machines each with it's own CNC processor, 'networked' back to a single control station also makes perfect sense. Yes 'VNC' and the like can access the graphics of each machine direct, but does each machine actually need the graphics? Raspberry Pi could well provide slave processing of a simple machine for a central management station ... it's just a matter of identifying just what each 'package' actually needs to do and building the best solution which might be a specialist 'motion control' co-processor rather than an ITX box? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
