Brian Vagnoni XO wrote: > Dear All;; > > Has anyone ever tried to use Beowulf to run a hlds server? I know hlds is > not multi-threaded, but the way they define the package makes it sound like > that it doesn't matter if it is multi-threaded or not. I'm no expert and > would like to hear from the "experts"
I'm no expert either, but I don't think this would offer much in the way of performance boost, if at all. The general concept of clustering is best suited to tasks which can be divided up between multiple processors and then run independantly. The problem is, communication between the processors is done over a network connection rather than, say, a bus.. so the inter-cpu communication is going to be massively slow (At least, vs. normal cpu bus speeds). This would probably completely destroy performance in an app like hlds. Cheers, James _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
