MB and Dual g5 power mac

hey
i just want to see if any body nows how compatable my g5 power mac and a MB would be. i make music using logic, is there any chance of them running together or would be a case of having 2 computers. i woulld love to able to run them as 1 unit .
dual g5 2.5 gig   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

I don't know how you do it, but I do know there is a way to link Macs in an "Xgrid" (see sharing in sys prefs) for linking them together to make a faster machine. I don't know if intels can work with PowerPC macs like that though.
Click Start to allow Xgrid controllers to distribute tasks for your computer to perform.

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