Author: Kim Roper Jensen
Date: 02:25:52 06/04/04
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On June 04, 2004 at 04:26:17, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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 I dont acutally think that it should be done for speed, more like proof of concept, I just found the idea of using gateways/routers for computing a little funny :) It was just the thought of having gateways functioning as a cluster, like the university that uses playstation2 http://arrakis.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ps2/ But maybe this is more interesting instead http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ /kim
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