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bloogersnigen

bloogersnigen

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May 15, 2005
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Wherever the water flows
I have three operating macs on my local network. I mostly use my dual G5 tower and the others are asleep. Is there any way for my G5 to automaticly use the other computer's CPUs when I'm rendering or something. I want this to be automatic (I don't have to do any command line work to activate it everytime) and it should works with many apps. This also should anly kick in whenever I'm using 100% of the CPU and more CPU's would be useful.

Thanks,
Ben
 
That would be cool, and I have no idea how, but I imagine you might be constrained by the bandwith of your network; if you connected each of the computers directly, however, it might work.
 
What apps are you using? FCP, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro - have Qmaster to do distributed computing - some of the bigger 3D programs have plugins for this as well (not too sure which ones exactly).
 
live4ever said:
What apps are you using? FCP, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro - have Qmaster to do distributed computing - some of the bigger 3D programs have plugins for this as well (not too sure which ones exactly).
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I use FCE, Photoshop, but I'd like this to work with everything (iTunes song conversion, quicktime encoding, whatever)
 
Soulstorm said:
You need an OS X server to do that... but look at this
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I've looked at the free Xgrid technology preview but it would only work with apps built for it. Would the real version (the one in OS X Server) work with all of them.

Thanks for all of your fast responses.

Ben
 
I am pretty sure a program has to be built to use multiple computers for it to work. I think Final Cut is Xgrid capable and i am pretty sure no adobe product is.
 
bloogersnigen said:
I've looked at the free Xgrid technology preview but it would only work with apps built for it. Would the real version (the one in OS X Server) work with all of them.

Thanks for all of your fast responses.

Ben
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No known technology can accomplish that. Only applications designed to allow distributed processing can take advantage of it to any reasonable degree (one could probably come up with some hack that moved threads onto other machines, but it would slow down 95% of apps).
 
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