psydT0ne Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp Omagine having a power board full of these things!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp Omagine having a power board full of these things!! Don't worry, your only about 3 days behind everybody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 yah, thats what I said as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 Ah well just goes to show how you should fucking search endlessly for similar or remotely similar or possibly any fucking threads containing a phrase or a word you plan to use, just so you don't duplicate. I apologise in advance for wasting two or maybe three mouse clicks of your tiime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Hey hey now. I am the only one who can waste my time! Well, I would at least have to give you props on the thread name. It pops out more.. And yes, A power board full of these would be more awesome than a closet full of mac minis which makes me think about something.... MICRO CLUTER COMPUTING!!!! Lemme calculate cost/power Intel Core i7 (quadcore) @ 69.23GFLOPS per sisoft sandra (source: http://mos.techradar.com/techradar-corei7-benchmarks.pdf) 3.4ghz =x1=$289.99 (w/o anything else SheevaPlug:cant find GFLOPS but it's a 1.2ghz X3 = 3.6ghz cluster, $269.97 Dude... Imagine about 50 of these. 50X$89.99=$4499.50 with 60ghz of available clock cycles per second! w00t! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Intel Core i7 (quadcore) @ 69.23GFLOPS per sisoft sandra (source: http://mos.techradar.com/techradar-corei7-benchmarks.pdf) 3.4ghz =x1=$289.99 (w/o anything else SheevaPlug:cant find GFLOPS but it's a 1.2ghz X3 = 3.6ghz cluster, $269.97 Dude... Imagine about 50 of these. 50X$89.99=$4499.50 with 60ghz of available clock cycles per second! w00t! Wait a minute, the Core i7 is a quadcore like you say, the Plug has only one core, so your going to need at least 12 of them to be approaching anything near the performance available from a single Core i7. Given the plug CPU is ARM compliant and that as they are all individual machines your software is going to have to be heavily distributed reducing performance, your going to need near 20 of them to reach similar amounts. I think I'll stick with the Core i7 thanks. Give it eSata and I'll start considering it for a NAS. I believe the dual core Atom is providing the best performance to buck and watt at the moment. The reason why Microsoft is currently trialing them in data centers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted February 28, 2009 Author Share Posted February 28, 2009 I just really think of the future and the way these things are going in terms of greater market share way down the track.. When more and more of these things flood the market one day every home will have two or three of these things laying around.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 stingwray, you are totally right. My bad, dont know what made me think it, but I was thinking the ghz rating of the i7 was all 4 cores added up.(im a goof) Still though you think about it 50X$89.99=$4499.50 with 60ghz of available clock cycles per second, is not bad at all but that would be one pain in the a$$ to administer. and when they hit 49.99 a peice, that would be super awesome cause that would be: 50x$49.99=$2499.50 @ 60ghz = 4cents/hert I'm just sayin. Im sure we will see something about someone (who actually has time for this) who ended up buying like 1000 of these things and now has a super cluster that rivals some super computer for 1/8th the cost. Though I still think broadly this will be a novelty unless they turn it into a full fledged consumer pc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gcninja Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 bitch at me later but since size matters apparently (when did that happen on the internet?!) http://www.picotux.com/ i WIN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 Hertz does not equal performance. This is why a 2Ghz Core 2 is much faster than a 3.4Ghz Pentium 4. These things are only going to be good for embedded tasks and even if you had a room full of them an i7 will still be more powerful. Plus, its ARM. Atoms win because they are x86, which reduces the development costs substantially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linton Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 Does anyone know of any websites where some tinkering is documented with this thing? I just got my SheevaPlug Dev kit today and I'm able to start playing with it right away (you can connect to it with mini USB serial cable they give you), but I'm curious what other people are doing with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 hmmm... product breif says that the chip has an lcd display interface built in.. but does that mean lcd panel or lcd unit? (ie a monitor, or an lcd like in an alarm clock... im thinking the latter) would be great for making a little rss feed scroller for the desk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linton Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 hmmm... product breif says that the chip has an lcd display interface built in.. but does that mean lcd panel or lcd unit? (ie a monitor, or an lcd like in an alarm clock... im thinking the latter) would be great for making a little rss feed scroller for the desk? The SheevaPlug doesn't have any sort of LCD display on it. Just the mini usb for usb/serial connection to pc, the gigabit nic, and the regular usb plug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 first page of the product brief for the processor says so: http://www.marvell.com/files/technologies/...oduct_Brief.pdf yes there may not be a PLUG for it implemented on the shevaplug, but that doesnt mean that it's not there. *remember what hacking means* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-ram Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 UPDATE: Dev kits on sale for $99 http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-2...ug-dev-kit.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 i htought it was $99 standard? or is that not for the dev kit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linton Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 i htought it was $99 standard? or is that not for the dev kit? The dev. kit is $99 from globalscaletechnologies.com which is where I just got mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted April 11, 2009 Share Posted April 11, 2009 damn. I'd lvoe to have one, but the next thing I REALLY NEED to get (when I DO have some kind of money) is cisco routers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linton Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 I'm digging it. It's actually been good for me for a very simple reason I didn't expect: it's making me learn more about the linux command line and how to modify the OS on this thing. It's really fun just doing the basics (for me). Here's a tip: those micro usb flash sticks are great for this thing. I have a slow 4gb stick that barely sticks out on the sheevaplug so it doesn't stick out past the network cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h3%5kr3w Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 that's pretty awesome. I can definitely see how this can help learn the lin-cli. I am loving it as well on my fon router w/ open-wrt, but im not sure if it is a bonefied linux distro or if it's just a backwoods one spec'ed for the fon like puppy linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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