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Subject: Re: Distributed processing.
Date: Dienstag, 8. September 2009N
From: Mike <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> ...
> Would be nice though to hook my old iMacs up through FireWire for a
> bit of an overall speedboost. Think I'm dreaming there though
Just besides, that would cost more power consumption than to run all that on a
newer machine that has the appropriate power anyway.
In other words: it wouldn't be economic to use old computers to run processor
intensive applications on them, and display all of it on even another old
machine.
Example (NUMBERS ARE GUESSES):
Intel Mac Pro, 4 cores: 140 Wh
Power Mac G3 B&W: 100 Wh
Run three applications:
On one Mac Pro: 140 Wh
On three B&W: 300 Wh
And the Mac Pro would be faster still.
Of course it would be much fun to try it... Just for the fun of doing what no
other earthling ever did before...
Cheers,
Andreas.
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