jfields 0 #76 March 14, 2002 Quotemmm...yes... thats why Apple has took over the Cray market....The county school system where I live is trashing thousands of Macs and buying 200 new Dell Optiplex desktops for each of about 150 elementary schools. The middle and high schools have been on Wintel for awhile, because I guess they figured the kids were too old for toys. Maybe if I took all the Macs they are throwing away, I could make a massively-parallel Mac supercomputer. Justin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Muenkel 0 #77 March 14, 2002 Well I built for myself a commodore 64 and I can play "pong" with it.Can someone please tell me when the hell the chess club got on this forum?Skydivers...they're just plain cool!Chris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #78 March 15, 2002 Quotemmm...yes... thats why Apple has took over the Cray market....Actually, there is software now to Beowulf Macs into supercomputing clusters. It's the cheapest way to do it now and one that is currently being built for a university will blow the socks off of a lot of the older Cray's out there. Personally, I'm a PC with Linux guy but I like to see the underdog win one every now and then. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #79 March 15, 2002 You cant beowolf cluster XTs too.. that dont make XTs supercomputers....RemsterMuff 914 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #80 March 15, 2002 Kris,the old 386 I have lieing in a box in the corner blows away many of the older Cray's....That's not saying much...Mac's are very good at being user friendly, but not geek friendly. Microsoft is alienating it's core followers by imitating the mac. That leave's linux.Anybdody who argues Mac vs. Microsoft is missing the point. That debate was settled years ago._Am_AmICQ: 5578907MSN Messenger: andrewdmetcalfe at hotmail dot com Yahoo IM: ametcalf_1999 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cameramonkey 0 #81 March 15, 2002 Mac's are very good at being user friendly, but not geek friendly. Microsoft is alienating it's core followers by imitating the mac. That leave's linux.------------------And then OS X comes out.... geeks all over the world are drooling and heading to "the toy" since its linux based They may never fully abandon linux, but alot of us are actually intrigued and playing with macs again. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #82 March 15, 2002 Quotegeeks all over the world are drooling and heading to "the toy" since its linux based I done good by not getting into this earlier, but I must point out that OSX is not linux based, if anything it's got a significant chunk of BSD code in it. Linux (GPL) code doesn't do well in closed source applications.Long live the BSD public license.-Jim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cameramonkey 0 #83 March 16, 2002 I done good by not getting into this earlier, but I must point out that OSX is not linux based, if anything it's got a significant chunk of BSD code in it. Linux (GPL) code doesn't do well in closed source applications.------------God... sorry I didnt say *nix. Linux, bsd whatever..... tomato, tomato... potato potato... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kris 0 #84 March 18, 2002 QuoteYou cant beowolf cluster XTs too.. that dont make XTs supercomputers....Ummm, it has been done on a lark, and it worked. It was a cluster of 100 or so set to work on a problem through massive parallel processing. Quotethe old 386 I have lieing in a box in the corner blows away many of the older Cray's....As for the Beowulf of Mac's, the small cluster they put together (64) rendered faster then a low-end SGI Origin.I agree with you on the 386 though. I have one running BSD acting as my firewall & router and it works like a champ. The last reboot on it was 197 days ago. Kris Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
