X11 instead of Aqua - An alternative of some interest?
X11 instead of Aqua - An alternative of some interest?
- Subject: X11 instead of Aqua - An alternative of some interest?
- From: Daniel Reiss <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:24:22 +0000
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If you install Matlab on a Mac with lots of memory, you can use X
windows to
run a couple of Matlabs, on that particular Mac, from any other Mac
with X11.
That means, you can run Matlab with a full 8 GB RAM access (soon,
hopefully),
while sitting at an iMac with 512 MB RAM, and still work as if things
were
going on on your own computer. And you can have more than one person do
that
and take advantage of that workstation that you bought.
I believe you can't do that with Aqua. If you start an application
using Mac
OS X filesharing, the application ends up running on the 'client'
rather than
the host, and it also does not necessarily run very fast.<endQuote
Although I have not tried this yet, it appears that you could use Xgrid
with a selection of computers on your network and point the Matlab
problem to the most capable machine; e.g., a Xserve with 8 GB memory or
a G5. If you limit the application to one problem on one machine you
do not have to worry about chuncking the problem and all of the
parallel computation issues. Then again, the Matlab problem may be
"chunckable" and you can use a bunch of machines simultaneously.
I'll leave that to others much more capable than I am.
Regards
Dan Reiss
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