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Message 250 - Posted: 20 Jul 2007 | 2:21:26 UTC

So...

1) I see that we have 7 days to return a result.

2) I have several PPC macs. One is a quad 2.5ghz G5.

3) YDL has a distro for Macs, I think.

4) If 1-3 all fit together, I could be crunching 4 results at once (assuming the project would up the current limit of 2 results).

Thoughts?
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Message 277 - Posted: 1 Aug 2007 | 8:25:06 UTC - in response to Message 250.

So...

1) I see that we have 7 days to return a result.

2) I have several PPC macs. One is a quad 2.5ghz G5.

3) YDL has a distro for Macs, I think.

4) If 1-3 all fit together, I could be crunching 4 results at once (assuming the project would up the current limit of 2 results).

Thoughts?


For the current application, we do not have enough task parallelism to run effectively on a PC/MAC. The Cell processor is crucial to get the results back quickly, although your machine would be already quite fast. Maybe in the future...

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Message 283 - Posted: 1 Aug 2007 | 13:59:40 UTC

Yeah, and on top of that, the installation of YDL requires erasing the HD, installing YDL, and then re-installing OSX (if you still want it). I am not about to go through that headache. Oh well, it was just a thought.
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