On Monday 08 December 2008 04:23:26 pm Derick Centeno wrote: > Bill or someone from Fixstars should be jumping to help you here. > However being the wonderful fellow that I am - :-D - I'll point out > that the PowerStation runs YDL as it's native OS and is sold > exclusively from Fixstars - formerly TSS. The PowerStation CPU > already is a 4 core Cell although the whole package can be modified - > read customized - by Fixstars to your needs.
Ok, I guess that's my cue. The PowerStation is not a Cell machine, it uses IBM's PPC970 CPU (what Apple called the 'G5'). It is very unlikely that you could get MacOS X to run on it. If you did, it would be a kernel hack and it would also violate the EULA for MacOS X, which only allows for the OS to be installed on Apple branded hardware. The PowerStation is a serious high-performance machine, if you really need bang for your buck in the Power architecture, it's definitely something to consider. As to Warren's concerns with Apple G5 power supplies, I haven't had the same experience - my G5 hasn't had any serious issues. As Derick mentioned, the GigaAccel 180 is definitely something you might want to consider. You can put one in a PowerStation and get the best of both/all worlds. The PS3 is a nifty way of getting a low cost testing/prototyping machine for Cell programming, but it has serious performance limitations due to HD speed, RAM and bandwidth through the hypervisor. Cheers, Chris _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
