Macbook pro

[Robert Stevenson Neasham]

Dear Ed:

Consider carefully the Novell and Suse approach. One NOS to control the
distrubet computer environment of Mac os/x, Windows XP, as  Yellow Dog.

*RSN
*

On 2/8/08, Edward Montfoort <therealsoultrain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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