Mac OS X Solutions for Stereographic Applications

SavoWood writes "In a realm which was (IIRC) SGI-only, a new tennant has moved in. It looks like the molecular biologists et al of the world will be able to send their SGIs off to the pasture and forget about the $500/yr. software updates, in favor of running their stereographic applications on Darwin/Mac OS X. A sales rep from Apple just sent me a press release with the link to StereoGraphics, a company that makes stereoscopic visualization products. Now, to send this message into the meat shredder of why you should do everything on SGI and how Darwin is just a playtoy... *GRIN*"

Re:A Leap Ahead for Apple

[torpor]

Never before in the history of comouting has the consumer had so much power and convenience available to him.

Never before? Maybe, but then why do we keep hearing this phrase, year after year ...

Re:A Leap Ahead for Apple

[ZxCv]

Never before in the history of comouting has the consumer had so much power and convenience available to him.

Never before? Maybe, but then why do we keep hearing this phrase, year after year ...


Because the power available to the consumer grows year after year, making it true year after year?

Re:Howard Coselle Does Tech?

[Fished]

Surely those Xserves can be clustered somehow.

So far as I know, there are no commercially available clustering solutions for OS X. Beowulf would probably work with some porting, but that's not really suitable for most server applications. Certainly, there is nothing like Sun Clustering or Veritas Cluster Server.

Now, if Apple wanted that market, they could probably do some really intriguing things using the Mach foundations of OSX (much as IBM did using the Mach foundations of AIX.) But "could" and "have" are very different things. Further, if Apple wants to be taken as a high-end server vendor, they will also have to develop high-end professional services. Sorry, but much as I love my powerbook, Apple just aren't there yet.