Compressor network rendering from Intel Mac to PowerPC Macs

Has anyone had any experience utilizing a Power PC G5 render farm for Compressor? I have the option of setting up a render farm utilizing up to 15 PowerPC G5s from an Intel Mac. Due to system limitations the Intel Mac will be running FCP 7 with Compressor 3.5 while the G5s are to be running FCP 6 with Compressor 3.0.
These 15 G5s are going to be sent to surplus if I don't take advantage. But I don't want to have 15 computers sitting around that won't render.
Any suggestions or experiences with such a situation?

I've had some experience using both Intels and PowerPCs in a QCluster. The hardware doesn't matter much, as long as all of the software is the same. Since you're using 2 different versions of Compressor and QMaster in this particular cluster, you will have compatibility problems. Also, depending on how you're connecting these machines, distributed encoding may not be a good solution.
A couple of weeks ago, I was testing a similar setup for a work group here. They had some extra iMacs that they wanted to network together to encode some Image Sequences. I ran some tests, and found that encoding without a cluster and with just a local cluster inside of just one MacPro was twice as fast as adding other nodes via ethernet.
But the basic answer to your question is that all service and controller nodes must have matching software versions. This is explained in greater detail in .

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printer through wireless network is way down on the
list of things that is ever going to be tested in the
labs.
Point taken. I'm just curious about what might be going on.
Since I can't test here - the only thing I can do is
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Routing tables
Internet:
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default 192.168.0.1 UGSc 20 55 en1
127 localhost UCS 0 0 lo0
localhost localhost UH 17 199665 lo0
169.254 link#5 UCS 0 0 en1
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192.168.0.3 localhost UHS 0 0 lo0
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localhost link#1 UHL lo0
localhost Uc lo0
localhost link#1 UHL lo0
link#5 UC en1
ray-thomsons-compu 0:14:51:ef:99:b1 UHL lo0
ff01:: localhost U lo0
ff02::%lo0 localhost UC lo0
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Kind regards,
Ray
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Online (UK): http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Elsewhere: call the phone number in the Apple Online Store.
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Someone tell me why is it so difficult to print from my Intel Mac Mini

I'm so frusrated at this Intel Mac Mini of mine. I wish honest to God that I never bought this evil little machine.
I have the following printers:
HP Photosmart 7550
HP Laserjet 1012
Canon MP830
I can't get anything to print! It so **** frustrating. I switched my wife from her WinXP to a Intel Mac Mini (10.4.6). She hates the Mac Mini because she can't print anything.
Why is it so difficult? Please someone enlighten me.
After months (not kidding) of searching on the web I was able to get the Photosmart 7550 to print using one of the gimp drivers, but I couldn't get it to change the paper type or quality. So that tells me I can't print any photos from my Mac. Need to use the WinXP box.
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Really I wanted to love the Mac OS. When I first got it, I was loving it. But what good is it if I can't print. I searched the web and it seems I'm not the only person having issues with printing.
I hate this Intel Mac Mini with every fiber of my being. Ok, maybe my printing woes are only because it's a Intel chip, and the PPC macs are golden. But come on, if you can't print from a computer, what good is it?
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Rod Hagen wrote:
Big MaCanadian seemed to be more concerned that performance might actually be no better or worse, Ewen.
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I have read your post, Rod. I just think you don't have a decent third-party Mac enthusiast site speed test comparison and some of your facts are wrong.
Going to the first major point, you in fact seem to be agreeing with us that the MB Pro may not be offering a vast preformance increase: +but from what I can see CS3 (while not as good as it should be) will almost certainly give Big MaC at least equal performance...+ . I think it will be a bit faster too, maybe even twice as fast in certain tasks as indicated by the comparison you made with the higher end Intel desktop system, but that isn't an out-of-this-world improvement imo.
Second point, +an Intel Mac will easily beat a G5 Mac with similar processor speed+ is a little erroneous as to my understanding due to the different architecture of PPC and Intel chips you shouldn't be directly comparing on the basis of clock speed and then suggesting that system are comparative if these are equal.
CS3 works fine with Intel Mac, but an issue many of us have is the disappointment that it hasn't been optimized at all for the latest Intel Macs.
(point 2 is also I believe idiosyncratically called the Megaherts myth, link to a Wiki article to bring you up to speed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth , and also http://www.asia.apple.com/g4/myth/)
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