Have a look at Xbox (and maybe PS3 - not sure if these still let you run Linux) clusters. Lots of people are going to be building clusters using Raspberry Pi's when they go on sale hopefully later this month (700Mhz ARM/Linux machines for ~$25). Whether or not you get the performance you're after, it'd be a fun project putting something like that together. I have quite a lot of experience with Sun Grid Engine on very large/expensive compute clusters and Hugin jobs run fine.
Tim On 12 January 2012 14:49, Jan Martin <janmar...@diy-streetview.org> wrote: > It is time to reveal a few more facts to allow for better judgment. > > Each image set is 13.2 MB per panorama only. > Stitching, blending, cubing and tiling needs 8.5 seconds altogether on a 6 > core AMD PC for USD 750. > > What I am looking for is to build a cluster from many cheap boards and > CPUs, that provides a "better performance per Dollar". > Not a "fast PC on a budget". > > Something like "10 boards of 150 USD each" that provide 6 times the > performance, bust just cost twice. > > Is there really nobody whom runs a rendering farm? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. > A list of frequently asked questions is available at: > http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ > To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
