[PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?

shreeswifty bigswift at cox.net
Fri Jun 9 01:06:21 CEST 2006


I ran a 90 day installation using pd and Gem without trouble. Again only
when the gallery lost power did it go down. A flash server let me tweak it
remotely/daily as well

Good luck!

> From: Marius Schebella <marius.schebella at chello.at>
> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:46:02 +0200
> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>
> Cc: PD-List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/
>>> listinfo/pd-list
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> ____
>> 
>>                   ¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
>> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PD-list at iem.at mailing list
> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->
> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list





More information about the Pd-list mailing list