03-23-2016, 08:42 AM
(02-10-2016, 08:07 AM)ataylorm Wrote:This actually isnt the main issue as a cluster is not a parallel processor, you need specialized software to run on the cluster. You will not find any software or games made to run on mpi. This means there will not be any bonus to running a cluster, and in fact if you spend the money to build a cluster if you have nothing to run on it, it would be better to buy a actual parallel processor, otherwise known as a GPU.(02-01-2016, 07:20 PM)T_ech Wrote: Awesome! I was thinking more power for Games, thanks!
Sadly most games are still single threaded, especially game servers. Some developers have started to take advantage of multi-threading, but I bet 1/2 the games in my steam library are still single threaded. On top of that the Pine64 doesn't have the best graphics capabilities for any kind of real time 3D gaming. Perhaps some day they will find a way to create a "virtual" SLI or something for them to combine graphics power across boards, but the network card would provide significant frame rate limitations.
