I was interested in buying a small XServe cluster some time ago, but then canned the project to wait for the G5 Xserve.
On of the problems I saw with an Apple cluster solution is that you have to cobble up your own cluster management software (or at least it was so a few months ago).
Maybe some solid CMS will come up from the VT experience and Apple will offer it with the next generation Xserve.
I want my own cluster!
I also have one of the original Digital Wallets (10 GB). From what I read about the Belkin tool, it may be faster than the DW for normal JPEG files (0.5 - 1 MB). The issue seems to affect large files of a few tens to hundreds of MB. My DW also takes a minute or more to load a 64 MB memory stick with 60-80 images (I am not a pro).
Maybe if you (and I) delayed the purchase of a more up-to-date device than the DW, we could give this $ 99 Belkin tool a try, possibly a few weeks from now when more info becomes available. That is, of course, if we are interested in the iPod for its own sake.
I don't have 10.3 but on 10.2 running X11 is straightforward: you double-click on the X11.app, and X11 is up and running in seconds. Then you can launch any X11 app from the terminal or from the X11.app menu. I suppose you can wrap X11 applications into AppleScript applets to make them double-clickable, but I am not sure.
If you put X11 in your startup items you will have it up all the time.
In summary, you may have to start X11 first (as on any system, if you think of that), but that's fast, and can be automatized.
You can run Gimp under Mac OS X. I do it as an amateur, and many professionals do it too. You can also run many other X11 applications. So you don't have to miss them. The advantage of OS X is the ease of maintenance, plus the many apps you *don't* get on Linux (Photoshop, MS Office, iApps). Again, if you prefer the Open Source alternatives to those apps, you can run them too, as mentioned before. You can't get around the fact that OS X is easier to install, upgrade, and maintain, though.
I don't have any mozilla, but...
go to the Network System Preference Pane. Under "Proxies", set "passive ftp" or something like that. That helped me in the past with Safari.
Hi!
I am thinking of setting up a small Xserve cluster for Life Science calculations. Can somebody help me with some suggestions? I barely know what an head node is.
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...if you could install OS X on them.
pithy.
I was interested in buying a small XServe cluster some time ago, but then canned the project to wait for the G5 Xserve.
On of the problems I saw with an Apple cluster solution is that you have to cobble up your own cluster management software (or at least it was so a few months ago).
Maybe some solid CMS will come up from the VT experience and Apple will offer it with the next generation Xserve.
I want my own cluster!
I also have one of the original Digital Wallets (10 GB). From what I read about the Belkin tool, it may be faster than the DW for normal JPEG files (0.5 - 1 MB). The issue seems to affect large files of a few tens to hundreds of MB. My DW also takes a minute or more to load a 64 MB memory stick with 60-80 images (I am not a pro).
Maybe if you (and I) delayed the purchase of a more up-to-date device than the DW, we could give this $ 99 Belkin tool a try, possibly a few weeks from now when more info becomes available. That is, of course, if we are interested in the iPod for its own sake.
It's not true there's no virus on Mac OS X. You still can get MS Office Viri.
I don't have 10.3 but on 10.2 running X11 is straightforward: you double-click on the X11.app, and X11 is up and running in seconds. Then you can launch any X11 app from the terminal or from the X11.app menu. I suppose you can wrap X11 applications into AppleScript applets to make them double-clickable, but I am not sure.
If you put X11 in your startup items you will have it up all the time.
In summary, you may have to start X11 first (as on any system, if you think of that), but that's fast, and can be automatized.
You can run Gimp under Mac OS X. I do it as an amateur, and many professionals do it too. You can also run many other X11 applications. So you don't have to miss them. The advantage of OS X is the ease of maintenance, plus the many apps you *don't* get on Linux (Photoshop, MS Office, iApps). Again, if you prefer the Open Source alternatives to those apps, you can run them too, as mentioned before. You can't get around the fact that OS X is easier to install, upgrade, and maintain, though.
I don't have any mozilla, but... go to the Network System Preference Pane. Under "Proxies", set "passive ftp" or something like that. That helped me in the past with Safari.
Hi! I am thinking of setting up a small Xserve cluster for Life Science calculations. Can somebody help me with some suggestions? I barely know what an head node is.