11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:51 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Well, if it's a workstation, sure. But if it sits in a datacenter
crunching math or databases or something?
I'm not sure how a cluster of rack-mount headless machines that use
the
video card's GPU as a co-processor is a collection of workstations,
and
not a collection of servers.
Oh, well that's another matter entirely. A coprocessor board does
not a graphical console make! ;) *poke*
Graphics
hardware has *no* place on a server. The fact that
many servers have graphics hardware doesn't change this. Though
admittedly it is somewhat of a matter of opinion, I have damn good
reasons for my opinion.
Howzabout an SGI box, or (it's "modern replacement") a render farm? GPUs can do a lot of math, very quickly (though
aren't necessarily as
accurate as general purpose processors).
I'd love to hack on that at some point.
Otoh, I prefer serial consoles on servers to video
consoles, even
if my
coworkers tend to disagree.
Lots of people disagree. I'm with you on that one, though.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL