Xgrid-and seti

[applemacdude]

Is it possible to use xgris to cluster my imac and two beige g3s running os 9 to get a mini supercomputer to do seti?

[familyte]

Is it possible to use xgris to cluster running os 9 to do seti?Here is a link for xgrid (http://www.apple.com/acg/xgrid/) and I seem to remember reading something (somewhere) about being able to use xgrid with SETI, but I don't see any links. The biggest problem you will have, I believe, is using xgrid with OS 9.

Good luck!

[applemacdude]

Anyone else have any comments/advice?

[stoid]

Well, you are going to have to upgrade to Mac OS X in order to take advantage of the Xgrid software. I tried to do something like that with folding, but I didn't have any luck, I think that the software needs to be coded in order to use the Xgrid set-up. In which case there would be a link on the SETI website, which I can't find.

[applemacdude]

That sucks....Oh well

[Dreadnought]

Xgrid is only still in Beta, so maybe soon it will have this kind of support. I think they are working on it, else they woudn't post a link on their site next to the folding secton of the Apple site. So probably they are working on something for distributed computing.

[mmmdreg]

wouldn't it have the same effect as having lots of little ones contributing less frequent work units anyway?

[Dreadnought]

for distributed computing it probably makes no difference if you get every proc its own WU or all procs working together on one WU. But it would be cool!!

[mc68k]

apple's xgrid setup at macworld used gigabit bandwith connections between the machines...not sure how well it would work on 10 or 100BT