Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Pocket PC Cluster Consisting Of 12 Linked Devices
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 02:00 PM
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/dev/articles/pocketcluster/index.html
"As a part of our continuing research at Spb Software House, we have assembled and tested a computing cluster based on Pocket PC devices. Twelve Pocket PC devices have been joined in a cluster to perform distributed calculations - the devices share the load of a complex calculation. The concept was to compare the performance of several Pocket PC devices linked into a cluster with the performance of a typical Pentium II-class desktop computer." 8O
They used IR because all Pocket PCs had that and the tests being performed were processor intensive, not network intenstive. They could have used TCP/IP but that would have meant additional hardware and expense. Pretty cool, but why would anyone do this? W?BIC! :D
"As a part of our continuing research at Spb Software House, we have assembled and tested a computing cluster based on Pocket PC devices. Twelve Pocket PC devices have been joined in a cluster to perform distributed calculations - the devices share the load of a complex calculation. The concept was to compare the performance of several Pocket PC devices linked into a cluster with the performance of a typical Pentium II-class desktop computer." 8O
They used IR because all Pocket PCs had that and the tests being performed were processor intensive, not network intenstive. They could have used TCP/IP but that would have meant additional hardware and expense. Pretty cool, but why would anyone do this? W?BIC! :D
