On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 16:28 -0500, John Todd wrote: > [new thread started] >
> I agree; the more the merrier. There was commentary in a private > discussion about the IBM Power5 eServer OpenPower 720 platform, which > can be configured in a 4-way design with SUSE Linux (perhaps also > YDL?) Getting Zap drivers to work with a DS3 card in this > architecture might even result in a do-it-all platform that can even > transcode 672 channels into a high-complexity codec. I haven't the > slightest idea if it will work or not, or if it's "better" than > competing chipset/vendor implementations, but it looks promising and > I'm hoping that someone might have news of this as a follow-up to > this thread (you know who you are.) Thats interesting. Especially with the potential for dual core Power5 chips. > I hadn't thought about SGI. Do they have any special hardware tricks > up their sleeves for perhaps doing codec transcoding in a more > efficient manner than in the "generic" main CPU? I don't know about special tricks other than the ability to add 4 way Itanium bricks to the "cluster" and have it just work. They have a special interconnect to have all the CPUs communicate via NUMA and therefore to the OS it is as if they all are in the same motherboard. So the benefit I see is in that you could get your DS3 and a couple of C bricks(cpu components) and start off with a nice frac DS3 setup. As you grow and need more channels and CPUs, you add another C brick and up your capacity. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with it so I'll leave it at that. > Of course, the trick (as Race noted in the introduction to his DS3 > thread) is getting the following components to the right place at the > right time for any new implementation: > > - a demonstration platform (supplied by the vendor or VAR) Getting access to the SGI system might not be too hard, but the DS3 card might be a bit more troublesome. > - a very competent Linux-oriented C coder who is familiar with Asterisk > - time The first part isn't as hard, but the combination with time is pretty difficult. > - motivation (in the form of money, glory, fame, whatever) Fame and Glory would definately abound if we could show a open source DS3 pbx with VoIP and IVR all together. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
