Does GIMP Work With MOSIX? 7
strredwolf asks: "Has anyone tried using GIMP with MOSIX? I have a few computers here doing nothing, and I'm wondering if GIMP could be spread out through multiple computers (x86, of course, they're 486's and Pentiums). That would help out the render times I have with just the 500Mhz AMD K6-2 I have."
For goodness sake... (Score:3)
Honestly, look at all the questions about doing really, um, interesting, uses for old hardware. Heck, the time it would take most of you to implement these cheeseball ideas, you could work at freakin' Mickey-Ds and make enough cash to buy the latest and greatest at what you're trying to do.
Potential Y2K BIOS issues aside, you will not significantly help your render times, but you might be able to set up another computer with a web browser and IP masquerading so you can download more pr0n while you retouch what you already have with your faster machine(s). That's about it. No 1-cow rendering farm for you.
Blender as well? (Score:2)
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Re:For goodness sake... (Score:2)
It looks like a GIMP design problem. Great. Oh well.
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Re:Blender as well? (Score:2)
I dont know much about blender, but if you are rendering an animation and the frames are independent, then with an N-node mosix cluster you can render N frames at once.
There's discussion of a blender network renderer on http://www.blender.nl/opensource/brd.php and a mailing list. With mosix, you'd just tell blender to fork a maximum of N rendering jobs, and let the kernel sort out the distribution!
Baz
It runs, but is it worth it? (Score:3)
mosix cannot run gimp plugins faster by distributing them over CPUs in a mosix cluster - unless the plugin forks several processes which mosix can then migrate if there's a benefit to running them on a remote mosix node.
The folks on www.mosix.org and associated mailing lists are very friendly and helpful.
Baz
mosix, i/o and shared memory (Score:3)
You might be better off writing pvm-aware plugins for gimp...
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the gimps eyes are watching (Score:1)