hi list,
i recorded 3 times in a studio last year that uses a daw/pc interconnection by pyramix, basically it is a hacked windows system, where one or two cores of a multicore cpu are completely hidden from the system. these cores are then acessed directly by the daw and used as a very powerful dsp. the system is incredible! lowest latencies, high trackcount, and the breakout to the adc/dac is a simple network cable.
see here for additional info:
http://www.merging.ch/products/pyramix/masscore
i since wondered if this would be a way to go for puredata? at least on linux it seems very easy to deactivate a core (but i don't know if it than can be used directly by a process) : echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online for core2 for example.
is this a completely stupid idea? note that i have no idea how hard it would be to implement something like this
thanks for any insight