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gigglebyte

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ok...now HERE is something I hope we can take advantage of on the Mac side with 10.4 since the client is built into system prefs... I can see easy borging or farming here :D
 
especially with the cheap (comparatively) mac minis that are also stackable:cool:

cure cancer and look good doing it!
 
yeah, but one mac mini costs more than my entire garden minus the gamer of course :D wonder how far back the os x will install?? I've got a really old mac around here, but I've never fired it up, I think it's pre PowerPC days LOL all the periphials are ADB and I haven't seen any ADB stuff in ages.
 
Ronbo said:
yeah, but one mac mini costs more than my entire garden minus the gamer of course :D wonder how far back the os x will install?? I've got a really old mac around here, but I've never fired it up, I think it's pre PowerPC days LOL all the periphials are ADB and I haven't seen any ADB stuff in ages.
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Heh, yeah you ain't gonna get OS X on that unless it's highly modified. I didn't know that xGrid was a built-in for Tiger... now that's kinda cool: i've always been interested in it, but i was never able to find anythign more than a "demo" version of it that would just show you what it did. I suspect however that you wouldn't find it to be very efficient: i'm thinking it would just be too cumbersome without any highspeed interconnects. You'd probably be better off running single instances on multiple machines. The more the merrier! : )
 
I have played with the xGrid Tiger Client/Server model. Looks/works fucking awesome.
Granted I did distributed PNG rendering, I have no idea with folding.

If only we could divide up the folding data and have each machine do a little of the work unit...
Is folding parallel or serial?
 
from what I can see the CLIENT side is built in to Tiger but I haven't been able to find the controler side yet (but haven't checked much) and IIRC it should be in the dev stuff since it is a freebie :D
 
I honestly was thinking about getting a mini, but I can't justify the cost/folding performance. For $500 I can have two mobile XPs at 2.2+GHz, one of which alone utterly annihilates the mini.
 
gigglebyte said:
from what I can see the CLIENT side is built in to Tiger but I haven't been able to find the controler side yet (but haven't checked much) and IIRC it should be in the dev stuff since it is a freebie :D
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The controller/agent config stuff for server is in Server Admin -> xGrid.
There is a whole application in /Applications/Server/Xgrid Admin.app that does the management.

I can't wait for Tiger, it is going to blow peoples socks off.
And if we can get xGrid working, 700Mhz per iBook (We are hoping to upgrade to 1.2Ghz) * 1200 systems = ~820Ghz :D
 
sigmend said:
And if we can get xGrid working, 700Mhz per iBook (We are hoping to upgrade to 1.2Ghz) * 1200 systems = ~820Ghz :D
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I can't find my socks and it's all your fault. :D
 
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