Hooking My two Powermacs together

[doucy2]

is there any way i can like up my two powermac g4s (one is 1ghz other is 500mhz) and used them as one mac to run apps
any help would be appreciated

these 2 powermacs are also for sale

cheers

 

[katie ta achoo]

is there any way i can like up my two powermac g4s (one is 1ghz other is 500mhz) and used them as one mac to run apps
any help would be appreciated

these 2 powermacs are also for sale

cheers

Are you trying to rig it up so that instead of two separate computers, you're trying to combine processor speeds, so it's a 1.5GHz PM?

I don't think it works like that... if it did, I'd hook together my iBook and PowerBook and be sitting pretty with a 2.4GHz laptop.

you COULD network them together, to share drive space or something..

 

[Sun Baked]

Yes, Xgrid and distributed computing ... but you need to write your own applications.

Don't know how many are currently on the market, since the boost is a narrow niche.

http://developer.apple.com/hardware/hpc/xgrid_intro.html

 

[combatcolin]

pester a certain university.

There quite good at this sort of thing.

 

[ammon]

If you are using compressor to encode video, just hook up your firewire cable between them and set them up to be render nodes.

Works like a charm!

 

[MacTruck]

I have drempt of this many times. Like hooking up 10 mac minis and stacking those suckers on top of each other like a tower. This would be soooooo cool.

 

[Mac_Freak]

I have drempt of this many times. Like hooking up 10 mac minis and stacking those suckers on top of each other like a tower. This would be soooooo cool.

and so expensive. For $5,000 you could buy two Dual 2.3 G5 or one maxed out Dual 2.7 with 10k or even 15k drive for virtual and scratch memory

 

[katie ta achoo]

and so expensive. For $5,000 you could buy two Dual 2.3 G5 or one maxed out Dual 2.7 with 10k or even 15k drive for virtual and scratch memory

..yeah, but it would look cool!!

 

[Mac_Freak]

..yeah, but it would look cool!!

ooups, I guess I forgot about the geek factor.

 

[katie ta achoo]

ooups, I guess I forgot about the geek factor.

You also wouldn't need a space heater for a 4 mile radius around that thing.


I swear, my room is always 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house.. it's the POWERBOOK!

I told Aaron that today, and he just laughed at me. Punk.

When I'm not spending money on space heaters...

..he also won't be because he has a 1 GHz PB.. hmm. I didn't think this one through.

 

[KittenKrusher]

I also got the warmest room in my house due to all the machines. Good in the winter, bad now.

 

[doucy2]

Hooking My 3 Powermac G4's together

is there any way i can hook all of my powermac G4's together and use them as one computer

any help would be appreciated

cheers

 

[iPhil]

is there any way i can hook all of my powermac G4's together and use them as one computer

any help would be appreciated

cheers

Theres a way via software made by apple but i can't find it


Edit#1: the software is called Xgrid
Edit #2:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xgrid/

Then you use ethernet or FW to connect them together

 

[aquajet]

Contact VA Tech...they seem to be the experts.

http://www.tcf.vt.edu/

 

[eva01]

Xgrid lets you do that, but the software you use has to be Xgrid capable and there are just a handful of programs that will let you do that. Like huge science and medical programs.

 

[yellow]

If you're fairly saavy, you can write your own XGrid plug-ins...

 

[doucy2]

If you're fairly saavy, you can write your own XGrid plug-ins...

i'm not that savy lol

im sure i'll figure something out

 

[yellow]

im sure i'll figure something out

What is it you're trying to do? Real parallel processing? I think that died with the Stardents/Ardents..