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John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
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> > I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
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> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
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nemesis schrieb:
>>> I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
>> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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> I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
I'd think even an X-box /cluster/ is cheaper ;-)
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>>> I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
>> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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> I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
And a C64 is probably cheaper still. You're point?
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Invisible wrote:
>>>> I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
>>> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
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>> I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
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> And a C64 is probably cheaper still. You're point?
You can't compare the computing power of an Xbox360 (triple-core PowerPC
3.2GHz, theoretical peak of 115 GFLOPS; and one hell of a GPU that I won't
bother to describe) with the computing power of a C64.
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>>>>> I wonder - what would it cost to buy a twin 6-core Opteron or Xeon box?
>>>> If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
>>> I'd think an X-box is definitely cheaper. ;)
>> And a C64 is probably cheaper still. You're point?
>
> You can't compare the computing power of an Xbox360 (triple-core PowerPC
> 3.2GHz, theoretical peak of 115 GFLOPS; and one hell of a GPU that I won't
> bother to describe) with the computing power of a C64.
Interesting. I wasn't aware PowerPC was still extant.
Regardless, the Xbos360 is a games machine. It's not like you can just
fire up a copy of POV-Ray on it.
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> Regardless, the Xbos360 is a games machine. It's not like you can just
> fire up a copy of POV-Ray on it.
Dunno about the XBox, but you can put a Linux on the PS3 very easily (Sony
give you a "boot other OS" menu option). Compiling POV on the PS3 shouldn't
be beyond the reach of a Linux-literate person.
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scott wrote:
>> Regardless, the Xbos360 is a games machine. It's not like you can just
>> fire up a copy of POV-Ray on it.
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> Dunno about the XBox, but you can put a Linux on the PS3 very easily (Sony
> give you a "boot other OS" menu option). Compiling POV on the PS3
> shouldn't be beyond the reach of a Linux-literate person.
The PS3 has a menu item labeled "install another OS". The Xbox360 has all
sorts of protections to ensure you can't run software that hasn't been
digitally signed by Microsoft.
It's quite a contrast.
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> The PS3 has a menu item labeled "install another OS". The Xbox360 has all
> sorts of protections to ensure you can't run software that hasn't been
> digitally signed by Microsoft.
Really? I was considering getting an xbox because with the XNA game studio
it seems you can compile programs for the xbox. Can you not run these on
your xbox then?
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scott wrote:
>> The PS3 has a menu item labeled "install another OS". The Xbox360 has all
>> sorts of protections to ensure you can't run software that hasn't been
>> digitally signed by Microsoft.
>
> Really? I was considering getting an xbox because with the XNA game
> studio it seems you can compile programs for the xbox. Can you not run
> these on your xbox then?
>
>
Sure, you can, and it works great. But you can't compile random code
for the XBox... it needs to be C#, and use the XNA framework.
If you want to be able to compile random C++ code then I believe you
need a dev kit.
...Chambers
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> Sure, you can, and it works great. But you can't compile random code for
> the XBox... it needs to be C#, and use the XNA framework.
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> If you want to be able to compile random C++ code then I believe you need
> a dev kit.
Ah OK I see, I didn't realise the (free) compiler for the xbox only accepted
C# with the XNA framework - would take quite a lot of work to port POV to C#
I suppose :-)
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