Hi Dave,   On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:10 AM, David Labbé <email@hidden> wrote: > quoted text
  Try this:  For your OsiriX configs  Under Preferences:DICOM Listener ->  Choose any available port over 1024 - try 4006  Under Preferences:DICOM Locations ->  [...]

Hi all,    I work on a macbook and am trying to connect to the PACS server at the hospital where I am conducting research.     The problem I have is that the server is setup to "push" the images on port 104.  I must therefore configure my client (Osirix) to listen on port 104. [...]

Seimens NX is now available on OS X. It looks as full fledge a system  
than ProE or Soldiworks, price included 8-\ 


 On 2009-11-10, at 12:43 , Scott Hannahs wrote:

[...]

Louis Demers eng.
www.obzerv.com  
  

Hi Martin,  
I wonder if you saw the very recent thread (4 Nov) started by  John  
Richardson. 
Basically, it seems that at this time it is not possible to build a  
small cluster with 
either Mac Pro or Xserves that use GPUs --- unless you use the "Apple  
version"  [...]

Hi,  
Unless someone comes up with something better, if you are serious  
about machining, then you have to leave the Mac platform and look at  
Solidworks. It is designed for exactly what you are talking about, and  
while I am big a Mac fan as any, what; [...]

[...]

I think you want OpenCL not GL.  
 http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/OpenCL_MacProgGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html  
 http://www.khronos.org/opencl/  
 

I agree with the previous comments about  .... VectorWorks is also my 
current solution, but they are way too focused on architectural 
design and theater lighting. I would like to see some return of the 
1) circuit diagram symbols that used to be there 2) Some interface to  [...]

Greetings,

Using GPGPUs (General Purpose Graphics Processing Units) is all the rage in computational physics now.  One gets a fast basic PC, drops in a lot of graphics cards, downloads some publicly available software, and then has a baby supercomputer for 5% or less of the cost, provided that the code being run is extremely parallel-izable.  The GPGPU is an almost ideal floating point engine, and can cover scads of scientific applications very well.

I'm curious what Apple's presence in this niche is.  I know Snow Leopard has Grand Central Dispatch and OpenGL native.  But if I want to build a Mac Pro with multiple GPUs for parallel computing, what do I need to do, and are there any good websites explaining the setup and performance?  I'd think this is a niche that, while not financially lucrative, would have a certain race-car like cachet for Apple, and that they would want to address, especially given their being a driving force behind OpenGL.

All my google searches for Mac GPGPU high performance etc., come up with stuff about the VaTech cluster (old news, not GPU driven) and Apple's web pages about OpenGL.  Anyone know about any current machines?

Regards,
Martin Melhus.

Martin F. Melhus      |     Never 
email@hidden   |     generalize.



 

[...]

Walk down the lane around the pond to the Engineeering 
College to get more opinions.  In the mid-1990s they 
taught Pro*E and a couple other packages.

Pro*E is the gold standard.  How steep the learning 
curve is, depends on your way of thinking. [...]

[...]

Google SketchUp is free, cross-platform, and has a very shallow  
learning curve, but has very limited import/export capability. 

The Pro version says it can import/export "DXF, DWG, 3DS, OBJ, XSI,  
EPS, PDF and more". Pro runs about $500, but I'd think you could have   [...]

Apple Sci-Techs,  
I followed with interest the recent discussion of different electronic  
schematic and PCB layout programs.  Now I am interested in a CAD  
program for mechanical machining.   Our needs are well defined but  
there should be something out there. [...]

Hi,  
 I have posted some related questions months ago ... what I gathered back
then is that integration of Nvidia cards with Mac OS X is not possible
because of the need of Apple machines for EFI support rather than BIOS.
Not that I understand this ... just what I gathered. [...]

Hello,

Anyone able to use the NVIDIA Tesla supercomputer GPU's in a Mac?

John F. Richardson
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