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| Tom_cowan |
| I know this aint to relevent to producition, but i wana use it for production so here goes. Can you link two pcs, with a network cable or something and have one pc deleagate out processes n tasks to the other. Its just for increased cpu power in floops but can you basicly make it run similar to a dual processor pc by simply connecting two seperate pcs together? |
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| ManTrance |
I would be interested in this aswell....
Bring on the expert advice.... |
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| robin |
well i remember this record attempt, to make a supercomputer with laptops connected to each other. (they wanted to get in the list of 10 fastest commercial supercomputers or something, they didn't made it anyway)
any how, it should be posible but i don't beleave its very effective between 2 computers. it is however posible to make 2 pc's running fruity loops (for instance, dunno if all producing apps have that function) work together, midi sync its called i beleave (but i might be wrong)
good luck with it |
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| hey cheggy |
| There's V-Stack but that's for Cubase. It lets you run a second computer as an fx rack. I think you would need nice souondcards on both computers though with really low latency in order to process through VSTs and then run back into the project. |
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| ilalin |
| Just buy a DSP card like UAD-1,install it and you'll be able to run awesome effects in real time. |
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| Paragod |
FX Teleport has a similar approach (like VStack) ... maybe u should take a look onto their website
http://www.fxteleport.com/ |
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| ManTrance |
That FX Transport looks wicked, really quite useful.
Tho the only thing Id be worried about is when I don't want to use the VST's on the host machine. I wonder if there's a switch or button etc, to force it to run the vst locally, but with all the settings remaining i.e. presets etc.
Will be trying it out soon, without a doubt. |
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| ZxZDeViLZxZ |
look into baycliff clusters technically you can cluster pcs together and have them co proccess data within the computers, theyve clusterd something like 200 p1 200mhz together back in the day or something like that.
heres another link to check out as an example of a cluster someones done with pics
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Computer cluster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A computer cluster is a group of connected computers that work together as a parallel computer. One of the more popular implementations is a cluster with nodes running Linux as the OS and Beowulf software (both free software) to implement the parallelism. Sun Microsystems has also released a clustering product called Grid engine. OpenSSI is another clustering project that provides single-system image capabilities. It leverages both HP's NonStop Clusters for Unixware technology and other open source technology to provide a full, highly available SSI environment for Linux.
There are fundamentally four types of clusters:
Director based clusters
Two-node clusters
Multi-node clusters
Massively Parallel clusters
All mature cluster implementations attempt to eliminate single points of failure. Director based clusters and Beowulf clusters are typically implemented primarily for performance reasons. Two-node clusters are typically implemented primarily for fault-tolerance.
An organazation publishes the 500 fastest clusters twice a year. Top 500 is a colorbation between the University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The current longstanding top supercomputer is the Earth Simulator with a performance of 35.86 TFlops beating out number 2 by over 15 TFlops
Clustering can provide significant performance versus price. The System X supercomputer at Virginia Tech, the third most powerful supercomputer on Earth as of November 2003, is a computer cluster of 1100 Apple Power Macintosh G5s running Mac OS X. The total cost of the system is $5.2 million, a tenth of the cost of slower mainframe supercomputers.
Clusters were originally developed by DEC in the 1980s. They not only support parallel computing, but also shared file systems and peripheral devices. They are supposed to give you the ability to use any program without slowdown or other problems.
A cluster of computers is sometimes referred to as a server farm.
In the GNU/Linux world, there is also cluster software, such as distcc, Mosix and its free counterpart openMosix. Mosix and openMosix provide automatic process migration in a homogeneous cluster of GNU/Linux machines, while distcc provides parallel compilation when using GCC.
DragonFly BSD, a recent fork of FreeBSD 4.8 is being redesigned at it's core to enable native clustering capabilities.
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Link to the site which has more links about this |
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