• Adobe After Effects

  Xgrid

  Posted by Don Jaksa on May 28, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  Is anyone using or even know if it is still possible to leverage Apple Xgrid technology with AE? I remember playing around with Gridiron Xfactor back in AE 6.5, but I believe that product has been discontinued.

  Since OSX server now has some powerful Xgrid options, and I have a few 8 cores laying around, I thought I’d try to get some extra power through Xgrid. Just not sure where to find a plugin that allows CS3 or CS4 to use it for computations.

  Any ideas?

  Brendan Coots replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Bogie

  May 28, 2009 at 10:02 pm

  xgrid always looked like a geeks wet dream but of no use to us mortals, remember “the rest of us?”

  Curiosity piqued, I ran search inquiries and came up with nothing more current than about 2005 but some useless information came up from an earlier era:

  https://www.macresearch.org/the_xgrid_tutorials

  #! /usr/bin/perl

  # profiler values are in the form: ‘ __key__: _____value____’ (one per line)
  my $memory = `/usr/sbin/system_profiler system_profiler SPHardwareDataType SPSoftwareDataType grep Memory`;
  my $regex = ‘^s*Memory: (d*) (.*)$’;
  my ( $value, $unit ) = ( $memory =~ /$regex/m );

  # print RAM value in megabytes
  if ( $unit eq ‘MB’) { print $value }
  if ( $unit eq ‘GB’) { print $value * 1024 }

  Hope someone has something encouraging to offer over the next few days.

  bogiesan
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  Brendan Coots

  May 31, 2009 at 6:21 am

  Might have better luck using Qmaster instead. Probably easier to set up!

  Brendan Coots
  Splitvision Digital
  http://www.splitvisiondigital.com

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