On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:27:01 -0400, Paul wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:17 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..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? > > > > I guess it's time to do that ray-traced FGFS after all. ..tell me more. > But you don't have enough bandwidth for that. .. how much do I need? > Perhaps 5 years out someone will have one of those new 16 processor/32 > core AMD boxes "laying around". That might do the job. -- ..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
