Re: [Hampshire] Multimedia on Linux

On Friday 04 May 2007 08:14, Jacqui caren wrote:
> Peter Salisbury wrote:
> > RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have
> > more than one, you can easily do clusters.
>
> The clustering bit is important - if you are using something where
> POVray is required - it distributes the work over the available boxes
> *without any user involvement*
>
> An absolute must even if you have 2.4GHx boxes :-)
>
>
> Jacqui

I agree that for CFD, Rendering and other high-load apps clustering is a
fantastic concept, but does it really have much applicability to multimedia ,
except for processing GB of data?

And how many people process that much data for their own entertainment?

Tim B.
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