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Setting up a cluster in compressor 4
Can anyone help me, please? I’m trying to harness the power of my MacPro and marry that to the power of a MacBook Pro and I don’t know where to start. I have a virtual cluster set up on my macpro but it’s the addition of another machine that is fixing me.
Can anyone help me in putting a smile on this man’s face as he watches his Activity Monitor go ALL green, please?
Regards,
Lawrence
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What is the vintage of both of your machines?
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The ‘main’ machine is a 2010 macpro along with a new MacBook pro. Both running Lion.
Lawrence
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Not sure if this is going to be an advantage to you. Do you have central storage that these computers share?
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Jeremy,
I’m using a drobo connected via firewire; which may or may not be the optimum solution, but it’s the one I have at hand.
I will also go on record as saying that I am sure that if I use this wirelessly, then hell would possibly freeze over faster?
So a Drobo it is, Jeremy and I await your muffled and polite chuckles and advice 😉
Regards,
Lawrence
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[Lawrence Eaton] “Jeremy,
I’m using a drobo connected via firewire; which may or may not be the optimum solution, but it’s the one I have at hand.”
And both machines are connected to it at the same time? Can’t be, right? Yes, wirelessly wouldn’t be the way to go about this.
CLustering only really serves a great purpose if the machines both have access to the exact same storage, otherwise one of those machines would have to copy media over to work on it, then copy media back. I’d stick with your 8Core to do the heavy lifting and run a virtual cluster on that. I’d also setup your MBP as it’s own cluster as well so tasks will get done faster on it as well.
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Jeremy,
I believe your advice is sound. It was a shot in the proverbial dark but I felt worth asking as I have a bunch of cores that I felt could be exploited to some good.
Thank you though, for spending the time answering this question for me. I am very grateful.
Regards,
Lawrence
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