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Linux Ported To Multi-Core DSP
prostoalex writes "UK-based Imagination Technologies announced the first port of Linux to multi-threaded DSP architecture. The port is done for Imagination's META core that it licenses out to those needing a generic DSP architecture. According to the company, 'META can run Linux on one hardware thread while running real-time DSP tasks on the other threads. META can also re-allocate MIPS on the fly so that each thread can be delivered the guaranteed share of processing resource and response time that it needs, while never clocking the processor faster than is required.'"
Someone already made the Beowulf joke...
Along those same lines, imagine linux using the DSP to automagically connect wirelessly to other linux dsp's and creating a (slow) wireless beowulf cluster, just from people wondering around with these devices on them.
oh wait...i just had 3 WAY better ideas on how to use these things...
so, STOP IMAGINING a beowulcluster of ANYTHING....
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