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Can this be replicated with opensource software?[p2p file transfer over thunderbolt, and extremely low latency Video and game streaming (no encoding)] (www.youtube.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Further if this technology is open-sourced; can it be extended for use cases beyond that(Dual Motherboards sharing Compute power with low latency for working on a single process?); I know such solutions probably exist for servers and enterprises but i am talking about amateurs who don't have 10K lying around for specialty hardware: If possible this seems like a low cost solution to mess around with

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Haven't watched the video, going by your title I'm assuming it's similar to a feature on macbooks where they can be plugged straight into another Mac, thunderbolt, or FireWire device, while powered off, and have their hard drive accessed directly from another computer.

There is code for this in the Linux kernel (sadly not quite the plug and play experience that Macs have, you need to boot after plugging in AFAIK?), and a news article about the commit that added it to the kernel for Thunderbolt was posted to this community a while back. Sadly I have no idea what devices support it, but it is at least is open source.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It also has the ability to stream your game(remote desktop) over the cable without encoding and control it from another pc with almost no latency(at least thats what the host claims)

From what i can gather from the video it only appears to be developed for windows, hence why i raised the question here

[–] t0m5k1 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

From the way linus framed what's happening, 4 pcie lanes linking frame buffers between both gpus and this being Intel makes me think this will remain closed source but if it catches on we could well see open alternatives.

I don't think open alternatives exist currently, though.