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[Fokus]

Thansk for the link, but I cant get that link to work, have you tried it? I alwasy get a server not found error  

Oh well, about running linux, yeah that would be great, but I dont run Linux and my rendering software is Lightwave not Maya, so paying for a new 3d package and upgrading my system to Linux would not be that great of an option...

Ill have to do some more digging....I guess  

Thanks for the great input so far

[Gimpmaster3201]

Fokus, what OS do you run/want to run ?

[Mage]

QUOTE (Fokus @ May 24 2003, 06:41 AM)

BrianW1800 thansk for the info on that....yeah very cool indeed! here are some figures to think about... 10 xboxs = 7.33GHZ of power = 1790 bucks, + a modchip each that woudl equal to about 400, wow a much cheaper solution I think than buying a mainframe or a bunch of computers...Just need the software that will make them communicate with eachother...darn it!

Well welcome to the world of distributed processing.
The raw speed isn't the actual performance you'll get.
There are many more overheads, and bottlenecks you normally don't have to put up with on a single system.

The xbox having a single ethernet interface makes it not that good imo.
Not to mention the lack of ram, or cpu speed.  Too much money is wasted on the GPU, which you won't be using for rendering in that 3d package.
In the end the MIPS/$ ratio isn't going to be as high as you'd expect.

[Fokus]

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After nearly 100 runs of the same test programs my results varied between twice as slow across the three nodes and five times as fast as running the same program on a single node.

, it is just to unstable...at least with real systems there is a higher rate of stability.

So SScorpio, do you do 3d as well, what package do you use?  You also seem to be very knowledgeable with networking, very nice!!

CHEERS MATE!