X-box, is it really just a computer in a fancy case?

[voidmain]

Well, it looks like the 2.4 kernel can go up to 64 CPUs running on a 64 bit platform (UltraSparc etc).

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.0/0601.html

I also found a message where someone hacked the kernel to go to 128 CPUs although they say 4 CPUs is the "sweet spot".  The biggest machine I've run it on was a Dell 6300 with 4 Xeon processors and 4GB of RAM.  It ran pretty well.  I've run it on some old Sparcs as well and would have liked to run it on our 10 processor Enterprise 4000 but it was utilized 24x7.

I have set up a PVM cluster here at my house.  Pretty cool, but you have to code your apps accordingly.  And of course LVM is cool for web clustering, but you meant SMP (I did know that by the way, was just trying to slip in some FUD and you found me out).

[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[choasforages]

yeah, 64, last time it was 32, owell, i wonder what linux will max out at or if they will get it to scale to the Nth

[voidmain]

Whoops, I edited my message and added to it since your last reply.  Certainly some hefty overhauling will have to be done to be serious about a large number of CPUs in the SMP kernel.  But I'm sure it will happen. Maybe now that Sun is getting into the Linux game... 3.x?

[ June 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[choasforages]

well, i can't wait till some one gets off there ass and uses embeded linux for a console. god think of all the marketable buzz words you could use heres my list. rtos, smp, gpu, gnu, mips/*im sure thats what make the ps2 stand up and kickass*/, scsi3, 1394, usb 2.0, framebuffer, glx, ddr, mesa, numa, crossbar, glue/*wait, this is starting to sound like a small supercomputer rather then a game console, owell, i guest a realitly center would play quake pretty good*/. think about that. this would all be tranparent to the person that cared little, the just would get a better console service from it. hell, to make it boot faster they could mod the linux kernel to boot off an ultrafast nonviolatile memory/*like the riscos, it used to boot in like 20 seconds and its a full computer not a console*/ and be updatable.

[lazygamer]

ACTUALLY, A Linux powered console could have one special thing. It's Linux, so modified, user friendly DOS and WINDOZE emulators would be possible to include.

So if you feel there's not enough games for the system right now, you can play some other stuff on it to!

[Calum]

it could have an interface where the code could actually be modified on a per user basis, similar to the yaroze black playstation idea, but taken to its logical conclusion.

[ravuya]

quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
ACTUALLY, A Linux powered console could have one special thing. It's Linux, so modified, user friendly DOS and WINDOZE emulators would be possible to include.

So if you feel there's not enough games for the system right now, you can play some other stuff on it to!

They tried this. it was called the Indrema. It flopped. Big time.

[choasforages]

did they actally make any of them, like it floped and was obscure but there are some aroung like the turbographics-16, didn't sell too many of those