Cooking with four burners

[ScutBoy]

Thanks to member defor, my Genesis MP is now rolling along in full 4-way multiprocessing glory!

I got all the pieces together a while ago, but life got in the way before I could dig up the necessary MacOS bits to install (not knowing initially that BeOS would not work on a disk formatted in OS9), get a CD-ROM driver for my non-Apple SCSI CD-ROM, etc.

But now, I've got 4x132Mhz processors running under MacOS 8, and better yet, BeOS5 up and running. I let it run the GLTeapot for about 3 hours today, with no issues.

If I would have had more time, I would have pulled out the BeBox and taken a side-by-side portrait. One of these days...

 

[unity]

Sweet!!!!

 

[uniserver]

sick sick sick sick          awesome

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Nice...I'm imagining this with four 604ev chips and smiling even more at the thought.

 

[Macdrone]

That's neat. I'd lol a MP classic is machine but finding them for a decent price is tough.

Great job that's awesome.

 

[Unknown_K]

Which mac apps take advantage of 4 CPU's? I assume BEOS does?

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Photoshop is one of the few I know of.

 

[ScutBoy]

The Daystar software installer had "plug-ins" for Photoshop and a couple of other apps to enable them to take advantage of multi-processing. When I get a chance, I can pull a list out of the readme files.

 

[SuperToaster]

Wow that thing must fly haha

 

[TylerEss]

Oh wow, *jealous* *jealous* *jealous*

 

[Elfen]

Very nice.

 

[beachycove]

There is a nice write-up on the machine (though with 4x200mhz 604e) here: www.mause.ca/about/dclick_issues/dc0110.pdf .

The article gives the following list of MP-aware software, and it is not as shabby or as short a list as people imagine:

•Adobe
After Effects
Dimensions
Illustrator
Photoshop
Premiere
Streamline
•Artel Software
Boris Effects
•Autodessys
FormZ
RenderZone
•Deneba
Canvas
•Electric Image
Electric Image Animation
System
•Emagic
ZAP-Zero-loss Audio Packer
•Fractal Design
AddDepth
Dabbler
Detailer
JAG II
Painter
Poser
Ray Dream Studio
•Image Xpress
ScanPrep Pro
•Insignia Solutions
SoftWindows
•LightWork Design
LightWorks Renderer
LightWorks Plug-in Render for
QuickDraw 3D
•Live Picture
Live Picture
•Macromedia
Deck II
•Media 100
100 Editing software
•MetaTools
Bryce
Convolver
Final Effect
Kaiís Power GOO
Kaiís Power Tools
KPT Actions
Studio Effects
•NewTek
LightWave 3D
•Quark
QuarkXPress
•Scitex
MicroSphere
•Specular
Backburner
Collage
Infini-D
LogoMotion
Replicas
TextureScape
•Strata
Media Paint
StudioPro
Video Shop
•Steinberg
CuBase
•Synergy International
Hollywood FX
•Ultimatte
Ultimatte