[Flac-users] High School Cluster - Beginner's Questions

[Josh Coalson]

--- "Miguel A. Mota Jr." <Chaos325 at Hotmail.com> wrote:
> we have developed a
> parallel-processing Linux Cluster (6 nodes) based on Red Hat 7.3
> (2.4.18
> kernel ) and openMosix clustering technology.  Its not much, but its
> a
> modest start for a few minority teenagers in a urban city helping in
> the
> movement for Open Source software.  We are using the following
> applications:
> KFract, KMandel, WideStudio, KStars, and POVChem.  In terms of
> benchmarks,
> we are currently using POVRay 3.5 Image Rendering and the openMosix
> Stress
> test.  While searching for new benchmarks (that can retain the
> attention
> span of teenagers) I came across the FLAC site and found it quite
> interesting.  I have downloaded and installed 1.0.4, and have
> gathered a few
> MP3's & WAV files.

I don't know how much running flac will tell you as it's
single-threaded and doesn't fork.  But...

>     Now here's the question.  Based on the assumption that I'm on the
> Masternode and in the directory containing the WAV files, can someone
> tell
> me what would be the command line/string to start rendering?

"flac -V -8 --lax -l 32 -r 8 -e -p *.wav" for maximum CPU stress

> Also what
> Linux music player would you suggest so that we can play/verify the
> resulting files?

XMMS

Josh


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