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Dualcore? Bah, get a real PC :-)
« on: April 26, 2005, 09:52:27 PM »
PC=Personal Cluster that is.
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4064513967.html8-)

But it only has a Mobility Radeon 9000 so I don´t think it will run Doom3 to good. :lol:

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Up to four DS-96's can be combined into a single cluster, Orion says.
But you probably need a new desk to support the 600lbs. :-)

And where is the laptop version?
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Re: Dualcore? Bah, get a real PC :-)
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2005, 11:13:37 AM »
And it can run AROS! :-D
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Re: Dualcore? Bah, get a real PC :-)
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2005, 11:14:06 AM »
it would run AROS-hosted just as well as any 1.2GHz Transmeta since it runs linux.
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The DS-96 also includes a head node with a DVD/CD-RW, USB port, Gigabit Ethernet port, a single 2.5-inch hard drive, and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 with 64MB of integrated DDR video RAM.


I didn´t say it would make use of the cluster did I?
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Re: Dualcore? Bah, get a real PC :-)
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2005, 06:03:30 PM »
It depends on threading and stuff. But you could run 90 UAE sessions simultaneous. :lol:
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It´s like Amiga4Ever on top of Windows, the faster the pc, the faster Amiga4Ever runs  :lol:

UAE on dualcores will be interesting, one core to do all the linux/windows stuff and using the other just to run uae.
Maybe that could be used for future improved 68k-compability in AROS?
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Re: Dualcore? Bah, get a real PC :-)
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2005, 11:38:54 PM »
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Trev wrote:
A dual-core box won't be much different from a dual processor box; however, the cores will share the same front-side bus.

Except price(dual processor is only affordable with PIIIs)

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UAE and other processes don't need to know anything about the underlying system.

Thats a job for the OS isn´t it?
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If UAE is written to support parallel processing

Doubt it.
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--in the JIT compiler and other emulation bits--then the operating system will automatically use the first available execution unit. If UAE runs everything synchronously, then it won't see a speed improvement at all due to multiple cores.
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Isn´t there any OS where you can decide over the task/process scheduler and command it like "UAE and all it´s subprocesses runs on this cpu and everything else runs on that cpu" wouldn´t that improve speed? :-?
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