PS3GRID on a PPC mac

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zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 209 Credit: 5,496,860,456 RAC: 12,111 Level Scientific publications	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? Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA ID: 250 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

GDF Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project tester Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 14 Mar 07 Posts: 1958 Credit: 629,356 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications	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... ID: 277 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

zombie67 [MM] Send message Joined: 16 Jul 07 Posts: 209 Credit: 5,496,860,456 RAC: 12,111 Level Scientific publications	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. Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA ID: 283 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote