[NMLUG] Speaking of monitors... and CPUs

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Nice.
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>  After some more research I find that there are linux distro's out there that "almost" support my machine.  This is running a MIPS processor, NEC R10000 to be exact.  Turns out that most of the MIPS distros support the R5000 and none of them support the R10000.
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>  The janitors will not be happy having to lug that beast to the dumpster when I toss it in my wastebasket.
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>  Tim

And that leads to another question: where do MIPS and Alpha processors
stack up against today's Intel and AMD dual-cores? Okay, renderfarms
need clustered processors regardless. The credit line on ICE AGE was
to Compaq's "Renderplex Alpha System", which further investigation
reveals to be comprised of 164 Alpha CPUs. But that was 2002 (eons
ago!). What's the top choice of graphical processor today? What do
LANL and SNL choose? Anyone know?

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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