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Title: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: redrumloa on March 06, 2005, 06:12:14 AM
/. link (http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/05/1341206.shtml?tid=126&tid=193)

Obviously, the Contiki website (http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/) is currently down, it has been slashdotted. :lol:
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: redrumloa on March 06, 2005, 03:18:16 PM
 :bump:

Posted at ~1AM, bumped for the morning crowd;-)
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: whabang on March 06, 2005, 03:27:24 PM
That really is cool! Now we want CGI-effects for the next Lucas Arts-movie, all made on a cluster consisting of 512 C64s!
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: bloodline on March 06, 2005, 03:45:48 PM
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whabang wrote:
That really is cool! Now we want CGI-effects for the next Lucas Arts-movie, all made on a cluster consisting of 512 C64s!


You do realise just how long it would take to render a single frame, with only 512 C64's... right :-D
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: Ilwrath on March 06, 2005, 07:55:18 PM
Hmm... By my calculations, a 512 node cluster of C64's should be about as powerful as my PDA.  :-)

But, seriously, Contiki has some impressive cool features.  I'll have to check this part out, and try it, just to believe it.  
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: SamuraiCrow on March 06, 2005, 08:13:56 PM
I used to think putting a RamBoard in a couple 1541 disk drives would make a good cluster since the disk drive's processor is just as powerful as the computer it's connected to.   :-)
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: Argo on March 06, 2005, 09:30:20 PM
Why limit one's self to 512 machines. Surely, using the new DTV 64 joysticks would be a much more effient use of space.
I wonder how many I could fit into a 10ftx10ftx7ft room. It could be called Big Tiki!
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: DFergATL on March 06, 2005, 09:44:41 PM
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bloodline wrote:
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whabang wrote:
That really is cool! Now we want CGI-effects for the next Lucas Arts-movie, all made on a cluster consisting of 512 C64s!


You do realise just how long it would take to render a single frame, with only 512 C64's... right :-D


Well that might give him time to do something interesting like come up with a plot.
Title: Re: Contili clusters now a reality. C64 clusters anyone?
Post by: bloodline on March 07, 2005, 03:42:24 PM
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DFergATL wrote:
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bloodline wrote:
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whabang wrote:
That really is cool! Now we want CGI-effects for the next Lucas Arts-movie, all made on a cluster consisting of 512 C64s!


You do realise just how long it would take to render a single frame, with only 512 C64's... right :-D


Well that might give him time to do something interesting like come up with a plot.


George Lucas... a plot... surely you jest!