UAE should be ported to the CRAY

[ChuckT]

UAE should be ported to the Cray supercomputer.

The monstrous machine is made up of 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. As a frame of reference, that’s a mind boggling 180,000 cores. And here I am getting excited over my dual quad-core machine. In terms of memory, the XT Jaguar is outfitted with 362 terabytes (TB) of memory or 362,000 gigabytes of memory; enough to load just about anything.

With 180,000 cores, multitasking could take on a whole new level.  It isn't without a pricetag because the base system runs around $8,000 and yearly dues to a usergroup run about $700 a year.

[Flashlab]

Uh, why? Completely useless IMHO.

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The Cray is x86 based and probably running Linux... UAE is already ported to it :-)

[MrZammler]

Of course just one core would be enough to run Superfrog at 100%, but out of curiosity, does WinUAE use more than one at the same time?

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MrZammler wrote:
Of course just one core would be enough to run Superfrog at 100%, but out of curiosity, does WinUAE use more than one at the same time?

Nope, the timing issues involved mean that UAE is not well suited to multithreading :-)

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MrZammler wrote:
Of course just one core would be enough to run Superfrog at 100%, but out of curiosity, does WinUAE use more than one at the same time?

Nope, due to timing requirement of UAE, it is not well suited to Multithreading :-)

[B00tDisk]

ChuckT wrote:
UAE should be ported to the Cray supercomputer.

The monstrous machine is made up of 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. As a frame of reference, that’s a mind boggling 180,000 cores. And here I am getting excited over my dual quad-core machine. In terms of memory, the XT Jaguar is outfitted with 362 terabytes (TB) of memory or 362,000 gigabytes of memory; enough to load just about anything.

With 180,000 cores, multitasking could take on a whole new level.  It isn't without a pricetag because the base system runs around $8,000 and yearly dues to a usergroup run about $700 a year.

and yet some lunatics would still {bleep} about OH NOOOO IT'S NOT SILKY SMOOTH IT'S JERKY THE TIMING IS WROOOOONG IT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT ON A MONITOR ONLY AN OLD TV IS PROPERRRR

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

[persia]

I've set up an Xgrid her at work that has 125 Macs in it (we're a university I have control over the labs in the building).  A quick calculation puts the number of cores involved at about 300 (mostly dual cores, a few single, quads and eight cores).  It's great for processing system intensive tasks, I haven't really pushed it yet, but it would be interesting to see what it does....

A colleague in another department has a mixed environment (PCs, Macs and various UNIX boxes.  He uses something called Condor to accomplish the same thing...