Linked by Kasra Yousefi on Fri 7th Jan 2005 17:44 UTC
Problem: Even the most powerful PC's become non responsive during resource-intensive computations, such as graphic design, media, image rendering and manipulating. The traditional solution has been to upgrade to a faster computer and throw more computing power at the problem to lessen the wait-time. But there's a simple solution that utilizes multiple machines, but without using grid/clustering. For now, this involves a hack, but how hard would it be for an OS vendor to streamline this process?
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> Even the most powerful PC’s become non responsive during
> resource-intensive computations, such as graphic design,
> media, image rendering and manipulating. The traditional
> solution has been to upgrade to a faster computer and throw
> more computing power at the problem to lessen the wait-time.
No. The even more traditional solution is about CPU interrupts and prioritized access to resources (such as the disk). The hardware has everything you need. The problem lies in those crap OSes not using the hardware correctly.