Are Mini-Macs Clusterable? - Democratic Underground

stepnw1f

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Sat Jan-22-05 10:54 AM
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Are Mini-Macs Clusterable?

Sorry if the info is elsewhere.

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LifeDuringWartime

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Sat Jan-22-05 12:19 PM
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1. if there is OSX clustering software

then yes. alternatively, one could install linux on them and do it that way.

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cheezus

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Sun Jan-23-05 07:33 PM
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2. what exactly do you mean, clusterable?

os x can do grid computing...

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gold_bug

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Mon Jan-24-05 02:22 AM
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3. I'm also unsure what clustering is but...

but Xgrid is going to be built into the Tiger OS 10.4
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/hpc/xgrid_intro.html
(there's a beta version available now for 10.3)

There's also stuff like Pooch:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/pooch.html

I'm sorry if that isn't what you were talking about.

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mrbassman03

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Tue Jan-25-05 01:19 AM
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4. No... not unless you want to use programs that can use Xgrid...

But I doubt that is the case, as you would not be using a Mac mini. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but you asking if you can combine two to act like a faster computer? No)

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