Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 01:26:17 06/04/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 04:06:01, Kim Roper Jensen wrote: >Hi > >I was just reading slashdot and saw something the Linksys WRT54G, after having a >closer look it actually is a MIPS processor at 200MHz in the recent routers, >that is with 32MB ram. They have 4M ROM + 16M Ram. There are no models with 32M that I know of. >So now I got a silly idea, how about using ordinary consumer appliances for >clustering ?? > >I mean the Linksys router isnt too expensive, and the speed isnt totally >hopeless. You are commiting the ever-reoccuring mistake of looking at how many Mhz something runs and making an assumption of it's speed based on that. ARM chips, especially the ones found in such specialized embedded hardware, are not very efficient. Much less so than any contemporary PC CPU. >So if we put lets say 50-100 on a switch( Actually it should be possible to use >both the WAN and LAN ports for communicating) what kind of performance could we >expect ?? The Linksys WRT54G v2 runs Deep Sjeng at about 1/100th the speed of a normal PC. So if you'd network 100 together, you'd have something that runs at much less than the speed of a normal PC because of parallel losses. And it would cost 10 as much as a normal PC. -- GCP
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