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  • February 2, 2005 at 4:02 pm #360545
    knagurski
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    We run an ageing G4 800 Dual with OS X Server 10.3.7 for general file-serving etc. However, we are about to retire a pair of G4 1.42 Dual machines in favour of newer G5s.

    My question is this… is there any way that we can link together the 2 1.42 G4s with the 800 G4 and have them act as pretty much one machine (i.e. have OS X take advantage of all 6 processors and the 5.5GB of RAM)?

    I know that XGrid is out there, but from what I can tell, it is geared towards scientific jobs, which are uploaded and then processed. We want the entire system and ALL applications to take advantage of the increased power. Is this feasible, or just a pipe-dream?

    February 3, 2005 at 11:07 am #360561
    knagurski
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    MacTroll wrote:

    pipe dream. Sorry.

    This is why you spend $200,000 on Sun servers to do that.

    Ah well, suppose that 200k was eating a hole in my pocket anyway 😕

    Suppose I can still use the machines as a (very) small render farm for some 3D work. Probably tie in the hard drives for extra storage for the fileserver.

    Thanks for your help

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