On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Strake <strake...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/04/2012, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote: >> If you're doing cryptography and physical simulation, computation >> bound stuff, why not set up a 64-bit CPU server? I've got one at work, >> all you should need to do is get the 64-bit binaries on your >> fileserver. > > Then I have a CPU server with very nice on-board sound, and powerful > graphics card, both idle, the latter since I have no other machine > that can take it, I have no driver, and even if I had, > (32 b/pixel)(1920x1080 pixel)(60.0 Hz) = 4 Gb/s > network data rate = 1 Gb/s. >
There are 3 options: 1. Suck it up and use the 64-bit system that is available 2. Write drivers for your hardware (this is the comedy option) 3. Complain on 9fans for a while before eventually giving up (this is the popular option) I don't even know what you're attempting to imply with that calculation at the end, though. What does the onboard graphics card have to do with network bandwidth? If you run a big drawterm/cpu window, it won't be that high of a data rate, and it won't use the graphics card anyway. john
