Dear Ed: Consider carefully the Novell and Suse approach. One NOS to control the distrubet computer environment of Mac os/x, Windows XP, as Yellow Dog.
*RSN * On 2/8/08, Edward Montfoort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks kai. actually thats what I had in mind, after taking an in-depth > about clustering. For what I could understand about distributed cluster is > that there will be a main machine controlling the other one/ones. Meaning > that the processing capabilities and memory as well I believe, correct me if > wrong please, will be concentrated on one machine only, as if we were > dealing with just one super computer, per say. That's definitely what I am > looking for. I believe Beowoulf in this area might be the one thing I need. > The only part I don't like at all are the issues that may occur between > different Linux variants such as YDL on the PS3 and other Linux Variant on > the macbook pro, for example. But it will be a challenge. > > Today when searching for more info on the Cell processor and PS3 I came > across a news about Toshiba saying they were at CES 2008 and presented a > Qosmio G4 with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four > 1.5GHz SPE's. This is one kiss ass laptop and with the cell processor it > would be more than welcome to my > clustering. (This part was just a sigh, never mind :)...) > > Thanks for the help so far. Now I know a little bit more that I knew > before :) > > Cheers > > On Feb 5, 2008 6:06 PM, Kai Staats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ed, > > > > > Thanks for all the info so far. So it definitly would be possible to > > run > > > Linux as the only OS on a macbook pro for what I can understand?. The > > > reason why I am asking this kind of information is because I have a > > project > > > in mind. You all might consider insane, but insanity is sanity, keeps > > us > > > alive. What I want to do is the following: I want to make use of > > clustering > > > capabilities using a macbook pro and a Playstation 3, and doing it so, > > to > > > proof that virtualizing mac os x on linux would actually be faster > > than > > > using a mac pro. There would be no distros issues regarding > > clustering? > > > Macbook Pro would be running one distro than not YDL (it's powerpc and > > > cell) and PS3 would be ruuning YDL. Would it work ok?. Of course I am > > also > > > beginning to learn programming and as soon as get the hand of it, it > > would > > > be great to programme for the PS3. > > > > > > Linux on a MacBook Pro is an x86 OS. Linux on the PS3 is a Power arch > > OS. It > > is very challenging to run cross-arch binaries in a tightly coupled > > cluster. > > You may consider a grid (distributed cluster) concept, but this will > > entertain a bit of configuration. > > > > Yes, there will be plenty of issues :( > > > > kai > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > -- Mr.Robert S. Neasham, Jr.
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