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TIGER - Xgrid for video built in?
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I just saw this blurb on the Apple "Tiger for Film and Video" page"
Give yourself some power. With Xgrid, an easy-to-use distributed resource manager, you can easily assemble an ad hoc collection of computers into a computational cluster. Integrated with Tiger, Xgrid processes data in a fraction of the time without buying additional hardware. So whether you�re harnessing the power of idle desktop machines or building a render farm, Xgrid has the power and flexibility to dramatically accelerate your projects.
So if Xgrid is baked-in to Tiger, how will video pros be able to take advantage of it? Won't specific apps like FCP still have to be coded specifically to take advantage of it? I'm dreaming of a day when I can throw a Mac Mini or two on the network to help with big renders. Discuss...
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Many of Apple's pro apps already support clustering, presumably this will just extend it to a few more, or allow Apple to unify the code for it.
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Originally posted by Catfish_Man:
Many of Apple's pro apps already support clustering, presumably this will just extend it to a few more, or allow Apple to unify the code for it.
It's true, Shake and now Logic have distributed rendering capabilities. And I'm assuming FCP will get this too eventually. But then why the mention of Xgrid?
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