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cuz .net frameworks are so close to each other. 3.5 didnt add too many new features (as far as I can tell). Might be a bug in the installer, might be a bug in the .net detection module. The blame can be thrown many ways so its easier to just check what you're running.

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:slightly perturbed cuz jon didn't wave back:

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You may.

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Are you running mastercam x4? All other versions of mastercam required .net 3.0 but x4 requires 3.5. That might be your problem.

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Hi Jon! :waving:

Make sure you have .net framework 3.5 installed and do a repair installation. If mastercam isnt closing, just kill it in task manager. Hope you saved your work!

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Laptops all have soldered on cpu's. They are non replaceable. My cpus in my siggy comp are 771. I'm thinking of upgrading to murrays xeons so I can get more space back on my desk... Stupid cluster.

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Is that a challenge? lol

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Ive been machining since I was 12. My grandpa was a farmer and had a mill and lathe. Thats when I got hooked. In high school, I took nighttime machine shop classes at the community college. When I finally graduated and went to college, I had already completed my manual machining classes. So I went into cnc. They had a old 5 axis trunnion that I learned on. Then I went into industry at 20. Now I'm lead moldmaker/programmer/designer at the company I work for. I take the power to create very seriously so it is my responsibility to keep my education up to par.

Lol. I'll up my cluster this weekend. I think 4 apple x-serve's should do it... Ok. Time to go to cupertino!

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Dang... This is my best time... I over clocked my mac and linked the fsb clock frequency's of the cpu to the ram. My netbook didnt help!!! Need more power!!!

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WTF???????????

All good here!

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+1 Rickster for increasing memory buffer.

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Ok.

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Powering down cluster...

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Cooling at 35%...

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Network adapter set to standby...

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Well it was either build a cluster supercomputer or drink beer all week. So I did both.

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Also waiting for murraymold for the showdown. System is on standby. Waiting for input...

My cluster. It's super hacked together! The macbook pro is used as the main host controller, the netbook is used as a node and my siggy comp is a node but its running windows. The router is a 24 port server switch I got at a pc scrap yard for 20 bucks. From my macbook I can associate where each packet goes and what it will do. The windows comp runs mastercam and when the multithreading manager is active, it sends the data to the macbook, distributes to other comps. then sends it back to the win pc. When I started this, it sounded way inefficient. But using xgrid, and my friend that works for apple (the reason its running properly), I can utilize multiple computers as one entity. I just put in the netbook as a node, but it doesnt give much power. maybe a 3% boost. lol.

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Xeon processors cache is bigger and its just how the cpu threads. Thats why I cluster. To pseudo up the cache while using processing cycles to help out.

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Money doesn't have anything to do with the performance of the card. It's just a well designed gpu.

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But because of the cache amount you have, with bigger files you could beat me. I'm actually intrigued by the advantages/disadvantages of cluster computers vs truly powerful computers.

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Yea, except without the cost of yours!

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When are we gonna benchmark battle?

Cadcam, I don't have a 5axis license but I would love to learn more about it. I haven't done any 5 axis in about 3 years.

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The 260 isnt a little card... If they rewrote it for cuda everyone could have my level times without a cluster on that "little" 260. I have a thread in the enhancement forum. If you want to see power unleashed, voice your opinion on that thread.

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Yea, Get A Mac! lol

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You can build a cluster system using windows. But It requires a bunch of 1u servers all using the same hardware. Gets pricey. Now if mastercam rewrote the multi threading manager in cuda, we could all just throw that tesla card in and crunch!

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And thats why I have a Apple Timecapsule hooked up to it and a mobile me cloud server! keep your data somewhere else. I'd do that even if I had only 1 hd.

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they have some problems and a good raid 0 array can almost beat them, but I want to raid 0 a pair of ssd's to see what or if they can do.

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And? lol

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He hasn't challenged me lately.

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And I just got more computers to be recognized on my cluster network. I could prolly go down to 20 sec if I have it writing to a ram disk or a solid state hd instead of a regular hard drive.

I've already tried it. Id doesnt work because mastercam needs cuda. Now a cluster computer does increase the benchmark time in mastercam. Go to the benchmark and read pages 24 and up. I have the benchmark record. :pats self on back: