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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.
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.