On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:10:54 -0400, Josh wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:06:11 -0400, Chris wrote in message > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > So I guess you'll be working on getting a GPL'd, general-use > > > > option available. > > > > > > ..not yet, I'm scheeming a renderfarm stunt; some new 2'nd hand HW > > > shop here says they got 200 Celeron 850's handy, so that got me > > > thinking about picking this: > > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/x29.html#AEN54 > > > sweet spot for a wee while. ;o) > > > > > > ..now this 200 node farm would need about 40, 50 to 60kWe, which I > > > would like to feed off a genset or 2 burning gas which I would > > > make off pelletized sewer sludge in my trusty old thermochemical > > > gasifier. ;o) > > > > > > ..now, a 320,000 BogoMips rig running on poo for half a day, > > > oughtta be able to do flyable software rendering for FlightGear at > > > 1600x1200? ;o) > > > > > > ..what else can I do with this stunt rig, make our new global > > > scenery? > > > > How you going to keep that beast cool? If you put all those > > machines in a single room and turned them on, they'd probably melt > > through the earth's crust in an hour or two. :-) ..well, firing my gasifier outdoors probably helped cooling it enough to support my gasifier rig. ;o) ..I'll probably put a prop on B&S' or electric motors in a coupla vent pipes, I'm gonna be removing 60kW outta the 20(30?40?)' freight container('s?), 2 times that heat off the genset and and another times that off the gasifier and gas cooling rig. Nice in the winter ;o), I work on my gasifiers in a drafty old un-insulated concrete building. ;o) > Plus poo is pretty warm to start with. ..aye ;o), my poo gas target temp is 1050degC exiting my gasifier. ..now, if I get a freight container here, I might be able to play with it for days, maybe even a coupla weeks, but most likely I'm gonna be taking my poo gas power plant to their place for maybe a "day" ie 4 hours, or air show or lan party weekend, ie 2 "days" to a 'hack run', that could stretch to about 50 hours. ..so, I wanna know what kinky things I can get done in a 4 hour run on a 320,000 BogoMips rig with 25.6GB ram, 2 TB of swap an/or /tmp disk space, on "a 170GHz Celeron" openmosix type single image cluster. ;o) ..limitations include the inter-node bandwith, a mere 100Mbps, the node owners wants anything on the disks zapped, and an nice penguin os installed to sell them with, and I'll spend most of the time keeping my 2 eyes on my gasifier, so I want _everything_ you guys want done, scripted, so I can automate it off the boot server. You want output, logs, scenery, _script_ it. I'll consider myself lucky if I get enough time to fly _one_ touch-n-go circuit. ..these pc's usually come from leasing firms getting batches back from the petroleum etc industry here, so this will happen again, if we lose this opportunity, my plan A is feed poo etc power into the grid, but, lets face it, FlightGear in "igloo's" made from 21" cool "cubes", is waaay cooler. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
