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Plug and Play Parallel Processing |
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| For Mac OS X and later: | (Click for Mac OS 9) | (Click for Mac OS 8.6 and earlier) |
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 How
to Build an AppleSeed
a one-page recipe for constructing a Macintosh cluster |
Recommended software (what we use to keep 'em running):
 Pooch
an application that assists in starting MacMPI_IP and MacMPI_X parallel executables |
A fun way to test your system:
 AltiVec
Fractal Carbon Demo (98 kB)
a MacMPI parallel graphics application demo which runs on an arbitrary number of G3s or G4s with OS 9 or X  With
this program we've achieved 6 GFlop/sec on a cluster of four G4s! |
Growing your own fruit:
AppleSeed Development Page
directions for writing your own parallel programs using the communications library MacMPI |
Two brains are better than one:
Multiprocessing Development Page
directions to simplify writing code for MP-equipped Macs |
Don't stop now...:
Other MacMPI-based applications for Macintosh
Additional parallel applications |
| For further information about parallel computing, including resources, a discussion forum, and software, see the Dauger Research web site. |
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| A cluster of Power Macs can give parallel performance comparable to a small MPP for certain problems: |
UPDATE: A recent milestone has been achieved with
AppleSeed:
A calculation containing 100 million multually interacting particles, which could only be done on the world's largest supercomputers 6 years ago, was completed using an 8-node Macintosh G4/450 cluster. Read on...AppleSeed Benchmarks- Complete listing of benchmarks plus graphs
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About the Authors: Viktor Decyk,
Dean Dauger, Pieter Kokelaar
Email
the Authors: decyk%40physics.ucla.edu, appleseed%40daugerresearch.com,
Webnerd emeritus: Marika N. Decyk: E-mail<mdecyk@bowdoin.edu>
last update: April 17, 2002
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