Hi Kent, Is it a requirement that all the computation be done on the board? Offloading processes to beefier CPUs over the network has worked well for us. Damon On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Kent Williams wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having a hard time determining if an ARM development board such as the > beagleboard or even pandaboard are capable of fulfilling the choice for the > main computer on a current project. I have the beagleboard xm and once you > get linux and ros up and running, that 512mb of ram doesn't look like it can > stretch too much further. I've been examining benchmarks of these two boards > vs single and dual core atoms and they are quite a ways off in performance. > I mention atoms because I know the netbooks being used out there with ros > even have a hard time with a mediocre load. What is the extent to which > you've seen a beagleboard, pandaboard, or the like come to hosting ros and > doing image processing, localization, and path planning? > > Any comments or feedback would be much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > -- > Kent Williams > > k3nt00@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > -- ---------------------------------------------- Damon Kohler Software Engineer Google Germany GmbH Dienerstr. 12 80331 München ---------------------------------------------- AG Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: John Herlihy, Graham Law, Lloyd Martin, Kent Walker ---------------------------------------------- Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht weiter, informieren den Absender und löschen Sie die E-Mail und alle Anhänge. Vielen Dank. This email is confidential. If you are not the right addressee please do not forward it, please inform the sender, and please erase this e-mail including any attachments. Thanks.