i have no idea how much computing power they have, or how fast it would use up the battery. but they can play videos n stuff, and there are a whole lot of them. maybe future generations?
My 400 MHz Pentium II with 320 MB Ram, SuSE Linux 10.1,completes one short WU in one day, while running QMC@home and SETI@home with lower priority. Bu I had to abandon bbc.climateprediction.net. No hope to meet its deadlines.
Tullio
But if you look closely, you will notice it says: "CPU: PortalPlayer PP5021C with dual variable speed ARM7TDMI cores running up to 80Mhz". And I believe these are a bit stronger than say i486. So, I believe it could be quite a fun runnig E@H and/or some other project on it (primegrid with its short WUs comes first to my mind).
My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB Ram and finishes a short WU
in 12 days :-)
I stand corrected. I didn't think that such a slow processor would finish within the 14 day limit. So processor speed and RAM won't preclude iPods. So it's really down to battery life as I figure that someone could create the needed modifications to BOINC. Does an iPod come with a power adapter and cord? I'm one of the few Mac fanatics that do not own an iPod, so I have no knowledge of what comes with an iPod.
boinc on ipod.
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yes, i realize it's kind of a far out idea, but with the ipod linux project it is possible to write programs for them...
Probably not a good idea.
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Probably not a good idea. One website (http://scoutingaround.com/computers/ipod/ipod_generations.php) listed a fifth generation video iPod as having a 80 MHz CPU with either 32 MB or 64 MB of RAM. It'd never finish a short WU in time.
My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB
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My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has 16MB Ram and finishes a short WU
in 12 days :-)
RE: My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has
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Cool, what Linux are you running on those old timers?
Alinator
The 486 has SuSE Linux 6.2.
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The 486 has SuSE Linux 6.2.
Its primary job is doing IP-masquerading for my LAN.
The Pentium III has SuSE Linux 7.0 with an upgraded kernel.
I had to install a newer C-Library on both machines to make Einstein work.
My 400 MHz Pentium II with
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My 400 MHz Pentium II with 320 MB Ram, SuSE Linux 10.1,completes one short WU in one day, while running QMC@home and SETI@home with lower priority. Bu I had to abandon bbc.climateprediction.net. No hope to meet its deadlines.
Tullio
RE: Probably not a good
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But if you look closely, you will notice it says: "CPU: PortalPlayer PP5021C with dual variable speed ARM7TDMI cores running up to 80Mhz". And I believe these are a bit stronger than say i486. So, I believe it could be quite a fun runnig E@H and/or some other project on it (primegrid with its short WUs comes first to my mind).
Maybe, I'm not having any
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Maybe, I'm not having any luck googling up MFLOPs, or even MIPS numbers for any arm chips.
The 80mhz model isn't listed,
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The 80mhz model isn't listed, but by interpolating from the 66 and 100mhz ones it looks like the 486-80 would get about 4-5mflops
http://netlib2.cs.utk.edu/performance/html/flops_1.data.col0.html (see also ..flops_2, flops_3, and flops_4 for different tests).
I still haven't found anything on the ARM7 FPU.
The Arm9 gets ~1FLOP/clock, the arm3 needs ~10clocks/flop.
RE: My Amd 486 (80Mhz) has
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I stand corrected. I didn't think that such a slow processor would finish within the 14 day limit. So processor speed and RAM won't preclude iPods. So it's really down to battery life as I figure that someone could create the needed modifications to BOINC. Does an iPod come with a power adapter and cord? I'm one of the few Mac fanatics that do not own an iPod, so I have no knowledge of what comes with an iPod.
Jim