Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Kahler
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)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-23 Thread Paul Kahler
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:27:01 -0400, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? One 1024x768x24 image is what? 2.25MB Even at a slow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:48:21 -0400, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:27:01 -0400, Paul wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I guess it's time to do that ray-traced FGFS after all. ..tell me more. But you don't have enough

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-19 Thread Jon Stockill
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:37:20 +0100, Jon wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 02:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..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) Distributed 3d rendering:) LeeE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:28:03 +0100, Lee wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 19 April 2005 02:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..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

[Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-18 Thread Josh Babcock
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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..any estimates on SW rendering?, was: World Wind as moving map display

2005-04-18 Thread Arnt Karlsen
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