On 01/05/2005, at 7:17 AM, Rob Davies wrote:
On 30/04/2005, at 7:44 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:
So who's game to try it, once tigger bounces in?
Have had it installed for a while, since the beta. But really
unless you're writing your own software to use it for your own
computations it's not particularly useful, and installation is
obviously a bit difficult as you've got to enter all the settings
on each machine etc, and e-mail some guy at Stanford. I suspect
XGrid is designed more for a local cluster of tightly integrated
machines rather than an internet spanning collaborative effort.
Shake utilises Xgrid as do other 3d Rendering programs , and DVDSP
in the upcoming version has links to it for encoding, which I would
assume is reason why Apple have decided to incorporate it in this
release of OS X.
The Xgrid Developers have been running with many variants of
multiple servers recently from within Unix / Linux distributions,
so the closed shop mentality is being removed slowly.
But, it's original model was to enable scientists to run
distributed computations using simple Mac OS X applications. As
with all things in life they get expanded, so has Apples ideals for
this program. It is an interesting journey as a digital content
provider over the next few years with HD and Interactivity becoming
the norm, and other issues already straining dual processor boxes.
This path Apple are building could be one answer as was Firewire
and DV all those years ago.
An issue I forgot was, Xgrid requires OS X server to operate with
your machine and Tiger, but their are ways to make it happen as a
localhost with no administrative or security control.
Tiger has the client, Tiger OS X Server has the controller, and
Bonjour supplies the connecter.
Otherwise you're better off running boinc, which can devote your
processor time to multiple causes of your choosing...
<http://boinc.berkeley.edu/>
Very Interesting, must have look into this, thanks Shay.
Have fun,
Shay
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