Goodbye Apple MacBookPro , hello Mobile Hackintosh

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Paul Jay] “Thunderbolt MacPro Clusters.. Yeah , that’s gonna happen:P”

Pretty sure it won’t work for more than two devices, i.e. you could potentially “network” two MacPros or MBPs over TB but not three unless someone comes up with a way to implement networking over TB.

I could be totally, completely wrong. 🙂

Alex
DV411

[Margus Voll]

In some point TB wil be limiting as it is pci e x4 not x8 or x16 as far as intels description
shows.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Erik Lindahl]

The mobile ATI.. erhm.. AMD GPU is a monster but no support for CUDA on that hardware. Any possibility we could see:

a) DaVinic moving Resolve to OpenCL
b) An external acceleration unit connected to Thunderbolt

This is the biggest update since the transition to intel but it’s a bit sad Apple doesn’t have any support for nVidia GPU’s on their portables. With the resent release of mobile Quadro 2K, 4K and 5K version these would be nice options for Apple I’d imagine. Maybe it’s hard cater for both AMD and nVidia on one moblie plattform design?

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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[Margus Voll]

I bet things get simpler than open gl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njeqeuJe-Y0

I bet one could add 2 lane cubix soon to laptop and 4000

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Erik Lindahl]

At the end of the day if all app using CUDA could migrate to OpenCL we’d all be in a better world. However, the state of OpenCL I THINK is lagging quite far behind CUDA in terms of performance.

An external cubix box over thunderbolt is of course an option.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
http://www.freecloud.se

[Misha Aranyshev]

[Alex Geroulaitis] “unless someone comes up with a way to implement networking over TB.
“

Check CalDigit SuperShare or Maxtronic ExaSAN

[Margus Voll]

It is matter of time when pcie is used as TB on external boxes.

In theory it should be pretty eazy.

But we should keep in mind just 10 giga bit for now.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

[Gabriele Turchi]

a cubix to be able to run a software laptop ?…i thought laptop was about portability and and no power need ….a cubix will be bigger than the laptop …
what would be the advantage on having a laptop than???

g

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Michael Aranyshev] “Check CalDigit SuperShare or Maxtronic ExaSAN”

Sure, SAN functionality – but not LAN, i.e. no “clusters”, render farms or file-level shared access that doesn’t need SAN management software.

I think the original poster meant “clusters” in terms of LAN, not SAN? If not – I stand corrected.

Alex
DV411

[Mikhail Puzyrev]

going to check this – seems like a perfect davinci portable. no extra boxes needed

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=240255