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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. Slight hijack of topic by Matey-O · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So, now that the Star Wars Special edition has 'updated' my pre-live xbox and patched it, will I still be able to mod it? (I'm assuming my options have been reduced to a modchip rather than a non-destructive hack) I left my original xbox (patched) alone and bought the second one to futz with...Damn you Lucas and Gates!

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  2. Re: Your Sig by rjamestaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just remember, "Hate Bush," as I call the spite-vote in my journal, didn't elect Kerry nor defeat Bush. You'll need to have a positive message by 2008 to win. In fact, some of the "Hate Bush" backfired -- like the Guardian's attempt to sway that county in Ohio to vote Kerry -- that county was the only one Gore won in 2000 that switched to Bush in 2004.

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    -- @rjamestaylor on Ello