Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Gamecube cluster?

[Jesse K. <j.k...@ti...>]

On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:16, Philip Lawatsch wrote:
> Jesse Krijthe wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I was just wondering: Would be worth the effort to build a cluster of
> > gamecubes (just as they did with the ps2) and then let it run a
> > something like the distributed.net project? How good is the gc at these
> > kinds of calculations? And if not distributed.net, what other project
> > would be better to run on a gc?
> 
> Nothing. Testing dnetc on my cube gives me about half the performance of 
> a duron 1800. Its simply too expensive to buy a cube and an ethernet 
> adapter.
> 
> Also currently the cube only supports 10Mbit and thus you do not want to 
> do any clustering that needs shared memory or anything that needs some 
> bandwith.
> 
> 
> just my 2 cents
> 
> kind regards Philip
> 
> 

Another thing which sould be taken into account is how much power it
uses: gc uses 12Vx3.5A= 42 W while a duron system will probably uses
more. If you are correct about the 50% compared to the duron on d.net,
then I too believe it will be too expensive because a gc (100 or perhaps
60 euro) bba (55 euro) and memorycard (10 euro) x2 = 330 euro is
probably more expensive then a duron or athlon or whatever x86 system.

Jesse Krijthe
j.k...@ti...

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