On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, James Gurney wrote:
> 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. Indeed. Beowulf clusers are only really useful for non-realtime apps. Be interesting to see what kind of results it does produce. When I was at school, a few of us were gonna try and beowulf up a load of 486's (just for fun really). We never really got anywhere for people knicking hardware and crap. In the processor days of today, unless you have something that needs CPU and a lot of it, then its not really worthwhile. Best using a quad Xeon or something :-) john _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
