[linux-audio-user] Re: slightly OT: supercomputer music

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:37:16AM +1100, Loki Davison wrote:

> Well, think about the name NUMA. If you don't have a deterministic
> memory access time then realtime is somewhat difficult.

It may not be deterministic, but it is bounded.  It is my understanding
that a system doesn't need to be completely deterministic.  It is
suffiecient to know that the worst case is within your boundaries, as I
understand it.