[PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?

[Marius Schebella]

I also made some good experience with Pd in installation surroundings. 
also with old computers. one installation is running for more than two 
years now. two others were running for a half year each. the problem is 
rather the hardware (esp. with older hardware, where harddisks and 
mainboards can break.) all of the installations start by turning on a 
main switch / resp. the fuses of the whole room. linux (I use debian) is 
preferred, I also unmount harddisks after startup and having everything 
in the RAM to prevent harddisk damage by powerblackouts.
on both, osx and windows you could run into problems when changing from 
summer to wintertime in longtime installations and on mac os(9?) I once 
saw problems with large temp files (that was not a Pd installation).
marius.


Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
> 
> I've used Pd in a number of installations and its great for this,  
> especially when running on GNU/Linux.  For this installation:
> 
> http://at.or.at/hans/yoyo
> 
> I ran the whole thing on a discarded PC running Pd on Debian.  It  would 
> automatically start up the installation on boot, and I set it  up so 
> that the disks ran synchronously so that it could be power- cycled 
> without worrying about losing data.  They had random power  outages, so 
> it had to come back by itself.  It did crash sometimes  (you can 
> probably blame my programming), but the gallery people could  just flip 
> the power to get it going again.  Yes, it takes time to set  up Debian, 
> and to make things start up like that.  But it has saved  me probably 
> days worth of troubleshooting time, so it was well worth it.
> 
> There are a number of other examples of installations running Pd,  there 
> is a permanent sound installation in a park in Vienna that runs  Pd. 
> IEM's 24-channel ambisonic setup runs Pd.  There is an  installation 
> here at NIME/Agora @ IRCAM that is running Pd.  So its  definitely ready 
> for prime time.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Damian Stewart wrote:
> 
>> i'm developing an installation for a public-access augmented table  
>> educational interface. i'd like to use pd bu i'm not sure about its  
>> long-term stability.
>>
>> previously the place i'm working has used cps (http:// 
>> cps.bonneville.nl/) - i'm wondering, has anyone here had any  
>> experiences with cps? could they recommend it/or not?
>>
>> or pd for that matter - how reliable might pd be in an 8 hrs a day  7 
>> days a week installation 500km away from where i live? would  using pd 
>> here be a dumb idea?
>>
>> -- 
>> f r e y
>> live music with computers
>> http://www.frey.co.nz
>>
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