Archive for the ‘cpus’ Category

l33t-tastic.

Friday, April 4th, 2008

This will appeal to the hardcore geeks… The video below shows a chap who with a single micro controller wrote a demo, but with an extra twist, he wrote a software based GPU and software based audio functionality. That’s one extraordinary feat!

Initially the video has the chap giving you a brief description of the specifics, then follows he’s creation..

Enjoy..

When more than one is to much to handle!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Just a quick post here concerning a neat little parameter you
can give the kernel when booting up Linux..

maxcpus=x

This tells the kernel how may CPU`s your system has installed, x is the number of CPU`s you want the system to know about.

I came across this when a friend of mine had a system which wouldn’t boot since one of the CPU`s seemed to of blown. Setting the number of CPU`s using the above seemed to work on getting him going again…