From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id D884B1EF69C; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (mta1.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4331EF516 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 10:55:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169BF388777 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1.math.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tnarzIFR8DOj for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DAE38885C for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mta1.math.wisc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-102.5 required=6.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (erdos.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.25]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.14] (ppp-69-218-137-10.dsl.mdsnwi.ameritech.net [69.218.137.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 44BC94288ED for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <53B028D2.5030601@math.wisc.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:55:14 -0500 From: "John G. Heim" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: installing slackware on a very fast machine References: <53AF79A2.5030502@math.wisc.edu> <20140629023754.GA4657@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20140629023754.GA4657@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:55:19 -0000 Are you asking how you'd go about buying a small super computer? Well, it's easy enough to order them on the Dell web site. But be prepared to pay around $10,000. I don't own these small super computers. They belong to the Math department at the University of Wisconsin where I work. We have a couple of 32 core machines and one 48 core cluster. But speakup doesn't run that much faster because it's not parallelized -- meaning it isn't coded to run on multiple processors. The linux kernel does parallelization itself so speakup can run faster on a fast machine. But I think you'd mostly notice the response time. And if playing sounds is faster, that's probably a bug in the sound driver. I mean, if you have a processor with a faster clock speed, you don't want music to come out speeded up. That'd be weird. On 6/28/2014 9:37 PM, Doug Smith wrote: > > Is there any way to go about getting one of those kinds of machines you say you have run speakup on? Does any local computer store sell them or can > they order them and can you get them for the same price range as, for example, a high-end customized pc? > > > > Thanks. > > > >