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Apple QMaster: wow. - DRR - 06-03-2008
I just tried Apple QMaster, included with Final Cut Studio 2. For those of you who don't know, it's a distributed processing system that enables you to use the processing power of networked macs to carry out some specific tasks. I just made a 3 mac cluster to speed my Compressor encoding.
Ad hoc setup of the simple cluster took about 15-20 minutes. Including the installation of necessary software on the nodes. Now, when I submit a job to Compressor, it takes (roughly) a third of the time. I'm sitting here posting and watching the processors of all 3 machines hum along at 100% while I watch how Batch Monitor splits up the encoding among all three machines.
I honestly have not been this impressed by a technology in a long time. Anyone who uses Compressor (among some other FCS2 programs) needs to set this up if they haven't already.
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - ztirffritz - 06-03-2008
That is just a practical application of the X-Grid technology.
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - Paul F. - 06-03-2008
"Just" he says...
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - BigGuynRusty - 06-03-2008
Love X-Grid!!
Was built in to the NeXT system.
Saw it originally at JPL back in 1989 when it was called Zilla.app, incredible.
BGnR
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - DRR - 06-03-2008
I'm even thinking about dusting off the old 400MHz Sawtooth to add to the cluster... I can see how addictive this can get!
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - MacArtist - 06-03-2008
Too bad I am not into video editing. That would be an easy way to justify having a bunch of Macs around me.
Wait a minute...
I still have a bunch of Macs around me; but this would stop my wife's nagging.
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - incognegro - 06-03-2008
But can it be used to download pron?
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - ztirffritz - 06-03-2008
I just wish that they would set up fold@home to work with X-Grid
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - Paul F. - 06-03-2008
Can you imagine what 5 Mac Pro's, folding in tandem, could do for Team 38910?
Nearly brings a tear to the eye, don't it?
Re: Apple QMaster: wow. - mikebw - 06-03-2008
Or you could just run F@H on all those machines independently and see the same results.