Message boards : Wish list : Why no MAC OS X?
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Does the GPU Grid project have any plans to support running work units on Mac OS? Thanks. | |
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I think its very unlikely that the researchers would be able to support another operating system. At GPUGrid the work changes quite regularly (lots of development and testing) and its difficult enough to make apps/tasks work on Linux and Windows for so many GPU types (GeForce 200 through to Keplers). | |
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On the other hand, Mac OS is based on Unix and Linux and all its varieties are based on Unix as well. In the scientific world a lot of Macs are used and more and more Macs are introduced. At Universities as well. | |
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Nowdays there's a non-negligible number of Macs around. However, most of them are laptops, so by definition not very interesting for GPU-Grid. And while it's based on Unix, development has driven Mac OS and Linux so far apart that they require separate drivers. As far as I remember there's never been driver interchangability between them. | |
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Message boards : Wish list : Why no MAC OS X?