Clustering hardware and Qmaster
This may be more relevant in Software, but...
I am surprised no one has been writing about this, but it wasn't long ago when we were speculating on the hardware possiblilities if Apple would make clustering simple and powerful - for schools with at times unused computer labs, etc.
Well in Phil's NAB(?) webstream keynote he demonstrated the use of QMaster within Shake or FCP a sub-app that uses Rendezvous to find other unused computers, not just servers, in a network to take some of the computing cycles. It was simple and automatic, but more importantly it was smart so that if someone turned off a machine accidently the program would notice and redirect computations to another one.
This would initially have little use in the consumer arena, but it seems to be the beginning of a more powerful synergy that we used to speculate on years ago...and now it is introduced in a limited way, but I haven't heard or read anything about it. Am I just reading too much into this?
Back at the Apple webpages on NAB they don't have his "streaming on demand" link anymore.
I am surprised no one has been writing about this, but it wasn't long ago when we were speculating on the hardware possiblilities if Apple would make clustering simple and powerful - for schools with at times unused computer labs, etc.
Well in Phil's NAB(?) webstream keynote he demonstrated the use of QMaster within Shake or FCP a sub-app that uses Rendezvous to find other unused computers, not just servers, in a network to take some of the computing cycles. It was simple and automatic, but more importantly it was smart so that if someone turned off a machine accidently the program would notice and redirect computations to another one.
This would initially have little use in the consumer arena, but it seems to be the beginning of a more powerful synergy that we used to speculate on years ago...and now it is introduced in a limited way, but I haven't heard or read anything about it. Am I just reading too much into this?
Back at the Apple webpages on NAB they don't have his "streaming on demand" link anymore.
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With the PPC970s coming, can anyone say PUSH into post-production work...?!?
Now if Apple could just manage to purchase the Maya source code/programmers/Duncan from A|w...
Would make me REALLY happy!!!
Cheers!
;^p
Covers pretty much anything, I did my homework. QMaster and Shake are mentioned at the bottom, including a little piece on my interpretation of the Maya rendering compatibilty.
Apple's approach still seems to be to fly this somewhat under the radar. I mean if it works with third party apps, then they have done the hard work already.
I'll ask my questions about SUN hardware in the other thread and perhaps this thread can wilt on the vine...