Macbook pro

[Edward Montfoort]

thanks kai. actually thats what I had in mind, after taking an in-depth
about clustering. For what I could understand about distributed cluster is
that there will be a main machine controlling the other one/ones. Meaning
that the processing capabilities and memory as well I believe, correct me if
wrong please, will be concentrated on one machine only, as if we were
dealing with just one super computer, per say. That's definitely what I am
looking for. I believe Beowoulf in this area might be the one thing I need.
The only part I don't like at all are the issues that may occur between
different Linux variants such as YDL on the PS3 and other Linux Variant on
the macbook pro, for example. But it will be a challenge.

Today when searching for more info on the Cell processor and PS3 I came
across a news about Toshiba saying they were at CES 2008 and presented a
Qosmio G4 with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU in addition to a Cell chip with four
1.5GHz SPE's. This is one kiss ass laptop and with the cell processor it
would be more than welcome to my
clustering. (This part was just a sigh, never mind :)...)

Thanks for the help so far. Now I know a little bit more that I knew before
:)

Cheers

On Feb 5, 2008 6:06 PM, Kai Staats <kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

> Ed,
>
> > Thanks for all the info so far. So it definitly would be possible to run
> > Linux as the only OS on a macbook pro for what I can understand?. The
> > reason why I am asking this kind of information is because I have a
> project
> > in mind. You all might consider insane, but insanity is sanity, keeps us
> > alive. What I want to do is the following: I want to make use of
> clustering
> > capabilities using a macbook pro and a Playstation 3, and doing it so,
> to
> > proof that virtualizing mac os x on linux would actually be faster than
> > using a mac pro. There would be no distros issues regarding clustering?
> > Macbook Pro would be running one distro than not YDL (it's powerpc and
> > cell) and PS3 would be ruuning YDL. Would it work ok?. Of course I am
> also
> > beginning to learn programming and as soon as get the hand of it, it
> would
> > be great to programme for the PS3.
>
> Linux on a MacBook Pro is an x86 OS. Linux on the PS3 is a Power arch OS.
> It
> is very challenging to run cross-arch binaries in a tightly coupled
> cluster.
> You may consider a grid (distributed cluster) concept, but this will
> entertain a bit of configuration.
>
> Yes, there will be plenty of issues :(
>
> kai
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