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j - 20 Aug 2004 11:50 GMT

Does anyone know if it is possible to 'link' two Powerbook G4's together to
enable them to work on the same Photoshop documents. I have Google'd and
only found software called Pooch which doesn't seem to fit the bill. I have
not found any other information. Any help would be greatly appreciated as
the person in question is working on 600mb+ sized files and it would be good
to put our redundant powerbook to good use somehow!

TIA

J

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Chris Moore - 20 Aug 2004 15:57 GMT

> Does anyone know if it is possible to 'link' two Powerbook G4's together to
> enable them to work on the same Photoshop documents. I have Google'd and
> only found software called Pooch which doesn't seem to fit the bill. I have
> not found any other information. Any help would be greatly appreciated as
> the person in question is working on 600mb+ sized files and it would be good
> to put our redundant powerbook to good use somehow!

There's Apples own Xgrid but if Pooch doesn't fit your needs I doubt
Xgrid will either. If your looking for an all inclusive whatever I do
on this machine spread the load to that machine I think your going to
be dissapointed.

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Small Tree Communications - 21 Aug 2004 15:50 GMT

> Does anyone know if it is possible to 'link' two Powerbook G4's together to
> enable them to work on the same Photoshop documents. I have Google'd and
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>
> J

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do here.

For example, if you had an nfs server or were sharing one of the powerbook
filesystems to the other, both systems would have access to the same files. So
your photoshop file would be available to both of them. However you still
couldn't "cluster" them since it's unlikely running two copies of photoshop on
the exact same file would lead to anything useful (either there would be some
kind of sharing violation if it locks files or there would just be corrupt data
since one program would be overwriting the results of the other)

Do you just want to make the same set of files available to both machines? Or do
you physically want two cpus chewing on the same file at the same time?

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S.Chang - 21 Aug 2004 22:38 GMT

>> Does anyone know if it is possible to 'link' two Powerbook G4's
>> together to
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> machines? Or do you physically want two cpus chewing on the same file at
> the same time?

Don't know if this help
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/news/MacOSX-announce.html
We use this to setup a small Grid farm using G5s in our lab doing batch
jobs.

S.Chang

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