No Ill use 2. There is no way i can keep up with your beast. Ill use my siggy comp and my macbook pro in my cluster. I still dont think i can beat you. Winner gains control of the appreciation station!

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Someone put up a new file. I want to challenge murray on it. We both got the same times so this will be in a true battle! Murray, you in for a speed test challenge?

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Thats not that bad. For the specs you toasted earlier, I expected at least 9.

Wow, so it will do the sub minute times even without a cluster. Heres to the sub minute people!

Ive been playing around with my cluster system and looking back at it, making a folding at home system for mastercam is plausable. But enabling CUDA for the system is even easier. I retract my earlier statement about cuda. It has gotten a lot easier to code for it. I want to try to write a patch for x4 so I can enable CUDA but I doubt it will work. Ill have to do that at kernel level. Oh well.

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But the problem with that is programming for CUDA is like trying to stop the government from spending money. It just ends in tears. Plus for optimal results it would require a CUDA enabled card with the horsepower to back the cpu (not a geforce series). But Ive only tried CUDA for osx so maybe windows is easier to program for. *snickers and then bellows a heardy laugh. But Matt, you are on the right track to instant toolpaths!

2 dell 19" @ 1280 x 1024

If it was possible, your Internet connection would have to push at least 100 mb a second. But if someone would make a mastercam folding at home like system, we could all benifit from it. Just because of the sheer number of computers on the network, we could get away with a 1 mb line each. Thus allowing distributive computing to all mastercam customers! Just a idea.

And I am not a /b/tard. I keep the /b/tards at bay and keep the yotsuba servers still running during the night raids of illegal content.

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Basically that's it. The cluster was perfected by pixar animation studios. But lets see some benchmarks now! We can start a thread on distributive computing. Someone beat my score! If no one can, this thread is now called, The_Evil_Machinist appreciation station!

(The_Evil_Machinist is my 4chan administration screen name!)

interstate is the only one I know of that makes one. MSC/J&L has it on their website. 07177348, 07177355 and 07177363.

Well there are different was to set up a distributive computing cluster. I use Mac osx and go through x-grid. Microsoft has their own cluster setup in server 2003 and you can refer to their technet website for more info. Clustering is not for everyone. But by far, the simplest way to cluster is in mac and just run mastercam in a virtual machine with main system and network priority. It's just a simple google away to bring the pains of corrupt data and endless kernal panics!

Personally, I like the core 2 extreme quad chipset (socket 771) becauce you can run duals and overclock the -insert bad word here- out of them. The xeons get unstable after a overclock with a voltage mod. But the modern xeons are amazing in what they can push. If you were looking for performance, look into cluster computing. Distribute the tasks over different computers. You can even use a ps3 as a cluster component! And to answer your question, my motherboard is a custon job. An experimental apple board that was built, tested and considered to expensive for daily use. So they ditched the project. We called it project simba (NO JOKE!)

Well, I called up my friend that works for apple and had him help me with my cluster network. I had too many computers on it and it was bogging down the network adapter on my pc. So I just hooked up my macbook pro to my pc and got the cluster running.

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SONIC BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ 06-29-2009, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: kenny_wallace ]

mastercam x4's multi threading core can send data back and forth fron the cpu's cores to your north bridge as fast as your front side bus can push the data. Where the lag happens is at your south bridge chipset. The mastercam translation feature basically means, "hey i'm the cpu and northbridge working together and were ready to give the finished project to you! are you ready to write it?". At that point the southbridge is like, "oh hold on a sec, I need to get the hard drive ready and in the right spots for it........... Oh ok i'm ready for it!!!! After that the hard drive has to write the data as fast as it can to the disks (in my case, 2 disks). At this point of translation, my southbridge was the weakist link. It put the comp into thermal protection mode which broke the raid 0 array and disconnected from my cluster network. My computer is fine! just no data in the thing. THIS WEEKEND, I WILL BREAK THE 30 SECOND MARK! MASTERCAM X4 WILL DO IT! COME HELL OR HIGH WATER! In the words of GlaDOS, "I do what I must, because I can".

well, I hooked up my cluster (My main computer in my sig, a new macbook pro, two acer aspire one a150 netbooks, a ps3 running ubuntu linux, a gateway tablet pc amd a hp media center pc). With every computer running at full capacity I ran the benchmark. In 20 seconds, it finished threading and regerating. When it was translating to write the data on the disk my main computer shutdown. I destroyed the harddrive array, put it into thermal protection and lost all of my data. I recorded the catastrophy and will upload the benchmark test to youtube tonight. So I guess my time was twenty seconds! Beat that (it only cost me all of my data and possible hardware damage! LOL) God I rock!

Ok, my time is 1m 12.659. Tonight, i'll hook up all my computers in a distributive cluster network (kinda like a supercomputer) and crank out a time. Will post screenshot.

I know. I could totally decimate everyone here, if i had any cash left for the hard drives.

But here are the Mac results!

Macbook 2.4 Ghz dual core, 4Gb DDR3 1066Mhz ram, 256Gb SSD, Leopard 10.5.7 running vmware fusion with win xp

9min 47sec. It did better than i thought for running in a virtual machine!

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▲ ▲ TRIFORCE!!!!!!!!!!! F... YEA!

xp pro x64. Damn computer sucks at gaming though.

3 MIN 26 SEC

DESKTOP

DUAL INTEL CORE 2 EXTREME QX9775

OVERCLOCKED TO 4.4 GHZ (WATER COOLED)

8GB 1066 RAM

WINDOWS XP PRO

NVIDIA QUADRO 3700 X2 SLI

MASTERCAM X3 MU1 MILL LEVEL 3 SOLIDS

[ 04-02-2009, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: kenny_wallace ]