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Title: MAME on clustered computers
Post by: HaRuMaN on November 18, 2010, 01:30:18 pm: Anyone ever try this? For example, using MPICH2?
Title: Re: MAME on clustered computers
Post by: newmanfamilyvlogs on November 18, 2010, 01:49:48 pm: Given the debate on how advantageous multiple cores are in MAME, I don't see how this would work.

Cluster computing is only valid for embarrassingly parallel problems. Mame is the classic example of serial computation.

The only place I can think that MIGHT benefit from this would be the 3DFX emulation core, but I am fully unfamiliar with how it works. I'm just assuming that the chip worked by performing the same operation on many sets of data simultaneously (thus today's 'stream processing units'), that it would lend itself more to massive parallel computing.
Title: Re: MAME on clustered computers
Post by: Gray_Area on November 22, 2010, 04:01:49 pm: Are you wanting to increase performance, or just run an instance of MAME?
Title: Re: MAME on clustered computers
Post by: HaRuMaN on November 22, 2010, 04:03:15 pm: Quote from: Gray_Area on November 22, 2010, 04:01:49 pm
Are you wanting to increase performance, or just run an instance of MAME?

Increase performance
Title: Re: MAME on clustered computers
Post by: WhereEaglesDare on November 22, 2010, 05:17:27 pm: yea you wont get an increased performance over a clustered set... if you do please tell us how.