[gmpi] Re: my first ideas
- From: David Olofson <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:37:49 +0100
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 15.30, Silver Blade wrote:
> Again, this is something I've considered the possibility of in the
> past.
>
> When the other computer is offline, you could just reduce the
> plugin list to those which are on the local computer. Network
> latency isn't that much of a problem (unless you're on a huge
> network) and it'd mean you could have a couple of extra computers
> tucked away under the desk, without monitor, etc. and just use them
> as rather expensive multi-processors!
A Beowulf class supercomputer. :-)
> Seriously though, it'd be useful. It'd be similar to
> multi-threading, but over a network.
Yep, I think so too. Use an RTOS on the worker machines, and you'll be=20
able to do low latency (ms range) processing on the cluster. Hardware=20
latencies in NICs are in the microsecond range, so it's all comes=20
down to bandwidth and worst case scheduling latencies. Note that this=20
is *easier* than what people normally do on clusters, since an audio=20
processing graph can just be split based on dependencies. That is,=20
each node will run a sub net that depends only on the input, and only=20
blocks once per block - pretty much like anything blocking on an=20
audio interface.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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