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[NMLUG] Speaking of monitors... and CPUs
sony playstation,
On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Steve Browne wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>> Nice.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The janitors will not be happy having to lug that beast to the
>> dumpster when I toss it in my wastebasket.
>>
>> 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
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."
>
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