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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. Re:Beowulf Cluster by Shishberg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?