On 3/8/06, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:30:14PM +1100, Loki Davison wrote: > > > physical modeling. It still chews TONS of cpu. However, supercomputer > > means non-realtime music (realtime and mpi? i don't think so.) and you > > can do physical modeling offline fine on a normal machine. So well, > > not very much. > > There is more than MPI for super computing though. There are still > vector machines, and there are still NUMA style machines like Origins, > Altixs, or those large POWER or SPARC machines. I don't know that any > of those are suitable for realtime either, but unless the answer is > already known, they would be fun to explore for such purposes. Well, think about the name NUMA. If you don't have a deterministic memory access time then realtime is somewhat difficult. > > Also, I wonder about clusters that don't use MPI. I seem to recall an > organ system that used a cluster of PCs for physical modelling. Does > anyone know how the different nodes communicated? I think it might have > been something like master->node->audio output, where each node only > modelled the pipes that it was responsible for outputing. i'd guess so, so not really programmed as a cluster but more in an osc style. > > -- > Joshua D. Boyd > jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.jdboyd.net/ > http://www.joshuaboyd.org/ >
