laptop cluster

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:47 pm

You should realize that you aren't going to add ten PC's together and have an uber gaming PC. Neither will you add 2 gaming computers together and get one 2x power gaming computer.

Generally the node takes a task, splits it up, and sends the peices to be processed by the rest of the cluster, than receives the finished peices and sticks them back together.

It's like having a dual-core PC, but with a super-slow interface between the cores. Get what I'm saying?

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:15 pm

Yep. Especially if they aren't connected via a gigabit enabled network. Anyway.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:12 pm

yea the only way to truely get what you want is to have an unlimited budget with a gigantic server basement that stretches for hundreds of yards...

Just build a nice dual dual cored processor PC and fall madly in love with Newegg.com

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:21 pm

Krepticor wrote:yea the only way to truely get what you want is to have an unlimited budget with a gigantic server basement that stretches for hundreds of yards...

Just build a nice dual dual cored processor PC and fall madly in love with Newegg.com

If you wanted to try and get as much CPU power as you could get a dual CPU motherboard that supports dual-core CPUs, kind of like the last G5 Macintosh. With that much power you could do just about anything. I don't know if they off that for the Intel chips but I do know they have them for the AMD chips, and if you're going for something like that anyway, get Opteron.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:25 pm

new intel line of chips in july. 'conroe' is the desktop model. i think they are all multicore....

i think one (planned) one has as many as 32... XD

edit: found this on a random website. might make some people happy:

2006-07-23 Intel Conroe Major redesign of the desktop chips based on the mobile chip Merom. Should use the same bus as Merom and Tukwila. Part of the Averill platform. Said to be used in future Macs. Will be named E6300 (1.86 GHz, 2MB, $210), E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2MB, $230), E6600 (2.40 GHz, 4MB, $315) and E6700 (2.67 GHz, 1066 MHz, 4MB, $529). A value-segment version known as Conroe-L will be introduced in 2007-Q2.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 9:28 pm

Sparkfist wrote:If you wanted to try and get as much CPU power as you could get a dual CPU motherboard that supports dual-core CPUs, kind of like the last G5 Macintosh. With that much power you could do just about anything. I don't know if they off that for the Intel chips but I do know they have them for the AMD chips, and if you're going for something like that anyway, get Opteron.

I think you can get a quad proccessor server board, server boards wouldn't make good gaming computers, would they?

sam fisher · Post by **sam fisher** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:44 am

timmeh87 wrote:new intel line of chips in july. 'conroe' is the desktop model. i think they are all multicore....

i think one (planned) one has as many as 32... XD

edit: found this on a random website. might make some people happy:

2006-07-23 Intel Conroe Major redesign of the desktop chips based on the mobile chip Merom. Should use the same bus as Merom and Tukwila. Part of the Averill platform. Said to be used in future Macs. Will be named E6300 (1.86 GHz, 2MB, $210), E6400 (2.13 GHz, 2MB, $230), E6600 (2.40 GHz, 4MB, $315) and E6700 (2.67 GHz, 1066 MHz, 4MB, $529). A value-segment version known as Conroe-L will be introduced in 2007-Q2.

They better be backwards compatible with pentium D boards. As before they were 'conroe' they were meant to be the next pentium D and compatible with my bored so I have a cheaper pentium D. If not I suppose I can always go to a 3.4ghz one. I nee more ram, and a better gfx card.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:26 am

As of right now, very few games support dual core processors, let alone quad core processors. By support, I mean 'make use of'. I've never had problems with games not running on a dual core PC, but I ussually get standard single-core performace.

Of course, now I use a Sempron, so it doesn't really matter ~_~

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:04 pm

Speaking of intel chips, im getting a Macbook in one week...im so excited. Should i post a review?

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:11 pm

Is it one of the macbooks with an X1600 in it? If so, I'd be pretty interested in knowing how it fairs. You'll be putting Windows XP on it, of course?