[linux-audio-user] Re: slightly OT: supercomputer music

From: Loki Davison <loki.davison@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Mar 05 2006 - 09:30:14 EET

On 3/5/06, Florin Andrei <florin@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 08:56 -0500, Greg wrote:
> > does anyone know of instances of big computing power going into making
> > music? Any recordings? Just one of those questions rolling around
> > the head.
>
> Why would you need a lot of CPU power for?
>

physical modeling. It still chews TONS of cpu. However, supercomputer
means non-realtime music (realtime and mpi? i don't think so.) and you
can do physical modeling offline fine on a normal machine. So well,
not very much.

Loki
Received on Sun Mar 5 12:15:14 2006

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