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Macintosh Clustering
HiredMan writes: "Wired is running an article comparing the set-up and admin of Linux Beowulf clusters versus Mac based clusters. Slant of the article is that the Macs are easier to set-up, maintain and are more flexible. They note that the Linux "how to" manual is 230 pages while the corresponding Apple document is a 1 page PDF file. Dauger Research of former Appleseed fame is mentioned as well, of course. MacSlash is also covering the article. Let the on-topic (for once) Beowulf comments fly..."
Only Apple users think having the company hide as much as possible is a GOOD thing.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Has anyone that actually knows what they are doing tried to do serious number crunching under OS X?
I'm extremely disappointed with the floating point performance on both my G4 and iBook...especially when using libm.
If you're going to reply with some Photoshop benchmarks...I will laugh in your general direction.
Typical mac article. All about "performance", and
performance/clock, but nothing about performance/price.
The simple fact that they don't mention it, says enough.
The whole idea of commodity hardware clusters revolves around the lower cost per gflop.
Using PPC that is 2 times as fast and 4 times as
expensive makes it uninteresting for a large group
of researches.
Some will choose PPC because less nodes is less spaces, but most will go for costreduction, and stay with intel (or better: Amd)
the Mac manual was published using a 1 point font, OTOH the beowulf manual is large, double spaced 36 point.
Contain my voice. Place my user into your foe list.