Urs Liska wrote:
For example: One computer running a complete pd instance with the gui and physical controllers, the other running a (-nogui) pd doing the "work", and both instances communicating via OSC.
Would that work (well)? (well, this scenario would also make sense on Dual Core processors, isn't it?)
definitely.
we use such approaches for most of our CPU-hungry applications (like the CUBEmixer), although we don't use OSC but netsend/netreceive: less processing overhead involved at the cost of non-compatibility with other appications
we even use this on single-processor machines: the "number crunching" pd -nogui runs with "-rt" and a quite low latency whereas the gui runs with a lower priority. whether the physical controllors are attached to the gui or to the dsp is a matter of design.
mfg.asdr. IOhannes