I'm aware that its possible to link Macs together to make a homebrew supercomputer. http://hardware.silicon.com/servers/0,39024647,39121558,00.htm or http://www.valleyofthegeeks.com/News/Supercomputer.html or http://news.com.com/Apple+sells+supercomputer+sequel/2100-1010_3-5242487.html?tag=macintouch
on the PC side there are Servers running 4 or 8 processors that zip along at a fair speed http://www.intel.com/design/servers/buildingblocks/sr870bn4/ 4 processors 32gb memory A full time assistant may be cheaper to run though :)) Regards Michael Wilkinson. 106 Holyhead Rd, Ketley, Telford, Shropshire. England .TF1 5DJ 44 (0) 1952 618986. www.infocus-photography.co.uk For Negatives & transparencies from digital files From: "daniel magee" Subject: [PRODIG] workstation supercomputers > Hi, > I sometimes have hundreds of high res raw camera (phase one H25) files > to convert to high res tif on a DAILY basis and frankly the fastest pc > or mac is not nearly quick enough to get the job done. > Does anyone have any experience of supercomputers? I'm not thinking > cray but I am thinking SGI or the likes. > Any help on this would be grateful. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
