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Building a Linux XBOX Cluster
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."
I remember something about selling mod chips being illegal, however I didn't follow the story very closely...
A low cost linux xbox for a server would be cool though, does anybody know if I could legally buy a mod chip to run linux?
I doubt they even tested the scripts as pasted:
... do
...; do
#!/bin/bash
for i 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.12 192.168.1.13
ssh root@i argv
end
should be
#!/bin/bash
for i in 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.12 192.168.1.13
ssh root@$i argv
end
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
Yeah...I agree with you although it should be noted that you do not need a modchip to run linux, so your figures may be off. An xbox running linux used to be a pretty good value, but the price of the console hasn't dropped as much as comparable PC parts. There is something to be said about running linux on as xbox though. When I only had one PC, I used to dual boot with windows and linux. My 3 room-mates and I played a lot of battlefield 1942. That game hogs resources like you wouldn't beleive so having the same box serve the game as one playing it really slowed things down. Enter the xbox. We already owned one and while we were playin 1942 nobody else was usin it. Yes we could have went to wallmart and bought a much better PC for a game server, but it would have been overkill, plus we already had the xbox. I had 16 people on the internet playin on my xbox server and the CPU was still 90 - 95% idle.
Random question.
Is there any sense in referring to "a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf clusters of X" (X in this case is obviously "XBoxes", but same logic applies for all X)? That is, is, say, an 8x cluster of 8x clusters at best equivalent to a 64x cluster? Or are there situations where having some kind of (at least logical, if not physical) cluster hierarchy is an advantage, e.g. to isolate network traffic for closely related tasks?
he said 100 watts for one xbox. the heat of a 100w light bulb. Imagine 1600w == 16 100 light bulbs. It would definitely add up. Space heater.
Of course that's a MAXIMUM.
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gorilla wearing a tutu.