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Building a Linux XBOX Cluster

Posted by samzenpus on from the imagine-a-xbox-cluster dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Getting Linux to work on an XBOX became relatively easy a few years ago, and building an XBOX render farm became the next logical solution. Anandtech bought 8 XBOXes and clustered them into a neat project any hardware hacker could appreciate. Check out the results as Anand pits his 8-way cluster against some Xeon and Opteron workstations as well."

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  1. Beowulf Cluster by DreadCthulhu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of . . . errr, wait a second.

    1. Re:Beowulf Cluster by SilentChris · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't imagine it. Halo 2 has been in my Xbox for the past few days and I'm sure as hell not taking it out.

    2. Re:Beowulf Cluster by infinite9 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Imagine a single XBOX doing all the calculations by itself.

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  2. Imagine a by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    gorilla wearing a tutu.

    What did you think I was going to say?

  3. So does this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    make it an LXXX-Box?

  4. This kind of geekiness turns me on by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally a real hardware story! How many YRO stories did we have to slog through to get to this kind of meaty story?

    Clustering XBoxes? What kind of maniac would even consider that kind of thing? My kind of maniac, I guess!

    Click here to enlarge

    I didn't even have to click it. I'm already there, man!

    1. Re:This kind of geekiness turns me on by G-funk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Click here to enlarge

      I didn't even have to click it. I'm already there, man!

      Score: -1, Too much information

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    2. Re:This kind of geekiness turns me on by krymsin01 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Slashcode wasn't written by Diebold, AFAIK.

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  5. 8 People less playing Halo 2. by 3770 · · Score: 5, Funny


    Somewhere out there in the world there are 8 little boys who are crying because they can't play Halo 2.

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    1. Re:8 People less playing Halo 2. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      And one little boy with a big grin because he can play Halo 2 7 times faster.

  6. Duct tape... by drclaw007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    it has a dark side, a light side, and it holds the universe together Oh and XBOX Beowulf clusters :)

  7. Imagination comes in on page 8 by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Funny
    • Page 8

    • A Beowulf Cluster
      So far, we have played around a little bit with the idea of a stand-alone XBOX doing some neat things. But what if we want to actually make a high availability processing cluster across all of our Linux machines at once? This is the murkier world of XBOX PCs, distributed computing. There are a lot of really good documents detailing how to set up a secure, robust and stable Beowulf Cluster, but this isn't one of them. We only want to benchmark 8 XBOXes in parallel operation.

    Amazing restraint by the good folks at Amandtech not to pander to the Slashdot crowd with an easy, "Imagine a...."
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  8. Ugh... by wrinkledshirt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we have a Beowulf Cluster of bad XBox Beowulf Cluster posts.

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  9. A few years by worst_name_ever · · Score: 5, Funny
    Getting Linux to work on an XBOX became relatively easy a few years ago

    You mean, a few years ago when they started selling XBoxes...?

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  10. Re:About writing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's eXtreme XBox programming, one guy pushes the buttons, the other guy tells him what to input.

  11. This has been done exactly 100 times by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

    And slashdot has reported it exactly 200 times.

    Guess what? XBoxes make shitty cluster nodes. Whaddasurprise.

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  12. 40 comments and no... by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doom 3 jokes? Alright, I'll take a stab:

    Finally, now I can play Doom 3 on my XBOX!

  13. Re:Mod chips? by FunkyELF · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes...and I love how the first thing you see when you boot with cromwell is a messing telling you to throw in the CD with bios.bin on it..