networking G5’s?

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yes but i believe it is cald a cluster not a network

I believe that you use Apple Qadministrator to do it, I cant realy say how because I have never done it.

[Arnie Schlissel]

This is what the University of Virginia did a couple of years ago when the first G5s came out. They hooked up maybe 1,000 of them into a single cluster & created a supercomputer. If you search on Google, or Wikipedia, or even the UV website, you could probably find more info.

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[Kevin Monahan]

Chris,
You can not chain G5s together to share rendering duties if that’s what you were thinking. Only for Shake and Compressor duties.

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[Chris Baldwin]

I’d love to be able to boost my encoding performance of Compressor. So creating a cluster will do this? I wonder to what effect?

Its gonna cost between $7000 to $10000 to get a new quad core with 4gigs of ram and some other hardware I’d like to upgrade to.

Buying a used Dual Core PowerPC G5 and clustering it with my current G5 is gonna cost me about $2500.

Is there any way to determine what type of perfomance boost I can expect from encoding duties? If its minimal maybe its just not worth it, but if I can cut 6hour exports in half or so that’d be GREAT!

Do you think I’m chasing my tail or is clustering G5’s a valid value solution?

I wonder if there are any links that describe setting up this cluster?

Thanks,

Chris