On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:54:57PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On 8/3/2020 12:00 PM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 12:36:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>>Work. Part of the problem is one person's NAS is another person's media > >>>server, with radically different requirements. > >> > >>And here I am, with my home server used as jukebox (running MPD) as well > >>as serving that same music collection via DAAPD, and my video collection > >>as well. Would that count as "media server"? Even if it's running on > >>a puny Banana Pi? > > > >Why not? If you count the GPU you might even outperform some old Cray ;-) > > Uhm no, :-) Uhm yes :-) Let's assume a lowly Banana Pi M1 [1]. It sports an Allwinner A20, which has a Mail 400 GPU; according to [2], about 1.2..5.4 GFlops/core (the A20 has two cores; I don't know if that means that it also has two GPUs). The Cray-1 (that one with the iconic design) has 160 MFlops [3], which was impressive for the time, but a safe factor 10 below our BPi hero; The Cray-2 [2] (not that iconic: the sitting bench was gone, alas) with 1.9 GFlops would at least stand a chance to not be trounced ;-) So I stand by my statement "you might outperform some old Cray". Whether it makes a good media server or not, I don't know. Media servers were quite different in Cray times :-D Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Pi#Banana_Pi_BPI-M1 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2 - t
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