Mac mini: someone explain chaining them
So is Xgrid only for scientific number crunching, or can Xgrid combine the power of multiple Mac minis to create a Finder that runs multiple-times faster? If not Xgrid, can this be done? And if not the Finder, could an app be written (perhaps combined with some additional hardware) that would offload intensive Photoshop calculations to the group? Could the drives be RAIDed with Firewire to create a single drive? What is the potential here?
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Originally posted by inslider
So is Xgrid only for scientific number crunching, or can Xgrid combine the power of multiple Mac minis to create a Finder that runs multiple-times faster? If not Xgrid, can this be done? And if not the Finder, could an app be written (perhaps combined with some additional hardware) that would offload intensive Photoshop calculations to the group? Could the drives be RAIDed with Firewire to create a single drive? What is the potential here?
None in particular, no more than any other sub-Xserve Mac. Might as well ask:
So is Xgrid only for scientific number crunching, or can Xgrid combine the power of multiple iBook G4 to create a Finder that runs multiple-times faster? If not Xgrid, can this be done? And if not the Finder, could an app be written (perhaps combined with some additional hardware) that would offload intensive Photoshop calculations to the group? Could the iBook drives be RAIDed with Firewire to create a single drive? What is the potential here?
Nothing inherently special about the Mac mini aside from form factor.
Originally posted by inslider
So is Xgrid only for scientific number crunching, or can Xgrid combine the power of multiple Mac minis to create a Finder that runs multiple-times faster? If not Xgrid, can this be done? And if not the Finder, could an app be written (perhaps combined with some additional hardware) that would offload intensive Photoshop calculations to the group? Could the drives be RAIDed with Firewire to create a single drive? What is the potential here?
Dude, in stead of chaining 4 or 5 of these together, just buy yourself a dual
2ghz g5.