Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-17 Thread Andy Farnell
Hearing it from the front line is really interesting Chuck. I am a little envious at the excitement a project like that must produce. Do you know of Joe Deken and the suitcase supercomputer project? He is a big Pd proponent (and friend of Miller I believe) and they are also looking at R-Pi

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Henry
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Andy Farnell padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote: Hearing it from the front line is really interesting Chuck. I am a little envious at the excitement a project like that must produce. Do you know of Joe Deken and the suitcase supercomputer project? He is a big

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread i go bananas
yeah, with this sort of thing... Miller was saying the other day how the original phase vocoder patch required $35000 worth of hardware (or whatever the actual figure was...) So i was just wondering what sort of audio things are round at the moment that can only be achieved with well beyond

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread i go bananas
probably going well off topic now, but what sort of new audio processes would be made possible by supercomputing??? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Andy Farnell
Well, there's almost no end of applications that wouldn't be improved or made usable by a hundred-fold increase in CPU. But things that aren't currently possible for commercial or domestic use might be; In processing, blind source separation using dictionary attack to find optimal sparse

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread i go bananas
yeah, separating individual instruments / voices from a mix does seem like a 'just over the horizon' application. I'd love to be able to have a stereo microphone in the room i'm in now, and separate the sound of the rain, the wind, the TV in the background, my typing at this keyboard

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
now my question is; spending 4k to build a Pi supercomputer can give you more power and possibilities than with a top of the line MAC for example (which will cost just as much, and be a quad core 2.7 intel i7, 1.6GHz bus, 16GB Ram). I'm guessing that CPU wize it would be more powerful indeed;

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Henry
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.com wrote: now my question is; spending 4k to build a Pi supercomputer can give you more power and possibilities than with a top of the line MAC for example (which will cost just as much, and be a quad core 2.7 intel i7,

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Goyard
i go bananas wrote: yeah, separating individual instruments / voices from a mix does seem like a 'just over the horizon' application. I'd love to be able to have a stereo microphone in the room i'm in now, and separate the sound of the rain, the wind, the TV in the background, my typing at

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread brandt
maybe melodyne? http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=products_studio cheers der.brant Zitat von Charles Goyard c...@fsck.fr: i go bananas wrote: yeah, separating individual instruments / voices from a mix does seem like a 'just over the horizon' application. I'd love to be able to

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Clearly there are cheaper computers other than apple, so I'm using it for comparison to give the raspberry pi more chance to stand out in power. But yeah, I made a bad comparison. First, you can actually have an apple macbook pro 2.7Ghz i7 for 2.5k, I was picking a top configuration model to

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Goyard
bra...@subnet.at wrote: maybe melodyne? http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=products_studio The name does not ring a bell, but it could be. Thanks Charles ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:24:45AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: now my question is; spending 4k to build a Pi supercomputer can give you more power and possibilities than with a top of the line MAC for example (which will cost just as much, and be a quad core 2.7 intel i7, 1.6GHz

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Being so amazed as I am on the cheapness of the Pi, I wanted to also compare its processing power to the chips on an iphone, for example. Well, apparently apple wont even tell you the details of it's chip clock speed. that's gotta suck so, being it that cheap, it'd be great if it also were an

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Thanks a lot Andy, that was really informative. So I see there's no point at all comparing this super Pi rack to general computers, and that you can't run one Pd having it being served by 64 of these. cheers 2012/9/16 Andy Farnell padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:24:45AM

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 05:47:22PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: Thanks a lot Andy, that was really informative. So I see there's no point at all comparing this super Pi rack to general computers, and that you can't run one Pd having it being served by 64 of these. cheers

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe democratise?) production through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to start making them locally. For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that,

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
But then I found about the beagleboard, which is open and have the schematics on their website http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design it's more powerful than the Pi, but seems rather expensive still. It's $150, which is not that much less than an iphone. And if you take all the phone cost/screen

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread chris clepper
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.comwrote: so, being it that cheap, it'd be great if it also were an open hardware, such as the arduino. I then found stuff like the beagleboard, which is open and all, but the 200$ seemed pricy, that's 1/3 of Mac Mini

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread chris clepper
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres por...@gmail.comwrote: For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that, unfortunately, I didn't see it anywhere so it seems they haven't done that, although they are surely willing to disseminate the usage of

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Scott R. Looney
i guess i'll chime in here and mention that some folks are designing an ARM CortexA8-based computer based on a PCMCIA card (its called an EOMA68 card). the card can be put inside an enclosure that would offer breakouts if needed. the biggest difference here is that they are trying to do the whole

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Simon Wise
On 17/09/12 07:41, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: it's more powerful than the Pi, but seems rather expensive still. It's $150, which is not that much less than an iphone. And if you take all the phone cost/screen and etc so you get only a single board, it should be cheaper and more powerful.

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Charles Henry
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Andy Farnell padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:24:45AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: now my question is; spending 4k to build a Pi supercomputer can give you more power and possibilities than with a top of the line MAC for

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-16 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
Nice, but what kind of enclosure wold that be? to me this card form factor seems to be only good to fit in a laptop computer, do they use it for something else? thanks 2012/9/16 Scott R. Looney scottrloo...@gmail.com i guess i'll chime in here and mention that some folks are designing an

[PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-15 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
anyone seen this? I bet it can open several phase vocoder patches http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/09/lego-super-gallery/?utm_source=facebookutm_medium=socialmediautm_campaign=facebookclickthru ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-15 Thread Michael Zacherl
On 15.9.2012, at 22:40 , Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: I bet it can open several phase vocoder patches 64 on this one, strictly speaking. -- keep your ears open: http://blauwurf.at http://soundcloud.com/noiseconformist ___ Pd-list@iem.at

Re: [PD] Super computer made of legos and Raspberry Pi computers

2012-09-15 Thread Alexandre Torres Porres
you mean like with this sort of thing, or supercomputer google style? 2012/9/15 i go bananas hard@gmail.com probably going well off topic now, but what sort of new audio processes would be made possible by supercomputing??? ___ Pd-list@iem.at