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Myrinet Available for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the oft-scyld-the-scefing dept.

KeithOSC writes "Looks like Apple may have one more step closer to real parallel computing. Myricom has just released its drivers for their high-speed cluster computing interconnect. I've been beta testing for two months now. With my findings, Mac OS X may be a real Beowulf cluster option. (Now, if Apple would just give us faster memory and PCI buses.)"

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  1. Expensive? by spencerogden · · Score: 2, Informative

    Granted Myrinet is not cheap, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to use expensive apple hardware and software in a distributed situation. Are the G4s still that much faster as to outweigh the costs? I haven't seen recent benchmarks. Is there evidenve that Apple hardware and OS X are great for distributed processing? If not, why bother?

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    Spencer Ogden

    1. Re:Expensive? by qurob · · Score: 2, Informative


      You can use G4 Briq's for making a cluster.

      Although, for the price of one new LOADED G4 Mac, you can get a whole 8 way intel box, or a couple real nice P4's....

  2. Re:Replacement for Research Clusters by 3nd3r · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exactly... This is not for building mega huge super computers out of - this is for building high powered small node number mini's.