 donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON | Miss your XServe? No problem, get 160 Minis! Very cool set up. They have 160 Minis in a rack.
»www.cultofmac.com/205308/these-1···-server/
That is a nice rack and who doesn't like a nice rack? 
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 HiVoltPremium
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Toronto, ON
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| Cute, but come on...
Everyone knows that OS X server has been gutted enough that whats the point anymore...
And this guy essentially made a server rack made of laptop cpu's lol... I can just imagine the mess of wires in the back...
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donoreoPremium
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON
1 edit | It should not be too bad. Network cables, yes. He has custom power that runs 4 minis. |
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
join:2012-01-26
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kudos:2 | reply to HiVolt
Probably doesn't sound like a jet engine anymore like my G5 XServes do. |
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 Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | reply to HiVolt
The i7 quad-core is fairly peppy! |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
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kudos:2 | Low power consumption and price is even more attractive these days. |
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Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | That's why I have a Mac mini server despite using a Mac Pro as my main station. |
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 bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA | reply to donoreo
Pretty impressed with this one, as well, although it's more like colocated servers, not a single purpose machine:
»macminicolo.net/ |
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they neither the AMD Opteron 16 cores or the Xeon 12 cores |
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 ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | Opteron 16 core: 115 or 145W per chip
Xeon: Usually in the 120-130W range per chip
Core i7 in Mac mini: 45W per chip
Raw processing power isn't always the most important thing in servers.
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| yup, specially if you are serving up static pages... my Core 2 Duo laptop can handle 1000 pages/sec with nginx... So yeah, the word server is miss used quite often. It's like taking a Mazda Miata Racing on a race track with a bunch of Porsche 911 GT3s...
Some Things like what google does requires very little horsepower to serve but in general Data crunching/Mining/transactions would require beef, and apple does not have an answer for that which is really sad.
Apple is a boutique shop that serves up starbuck laptops and desktops. Just look at the sad Server OS they just put out. You could do all that with open sauce utilities on a reg lion. |
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Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | Those "real crunching" situations you speak of generally run on bare bones hardware without a GUI controlled by the users' workstations. Apple has no need to compete there. |
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ThinkdiffPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-07
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | reply to Da Geek Kid
said by Da Geek Kid:Just look at the sad Server OS they just put out. You could do all that with open sauce utilities on a reg lion.
I don't know about open sauce utilities, but OS X has always shipped with some of the most popular open source server software (apache, mysql, etc). Does that mean Linux is also sad as a server OS? 
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| no. What I meant by open sauce(open source) is the macports can install all the features on a lion without the need of the "server" OS. |
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Unlike X the GUI on a Mac is not resource intensive. So having the next gen GUI on a Unix OS is not a bad thing. I'd love a 4 CPU Xeon 12 cores running my 100TB transaction servers... yeah the Opterons hum just fine but a Mac GUI makes it that much better. |
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Count ZeroObama-Biden 2012Premium
join:2007-01-18
Winston Salem, NC | It's just unnecessary and not cost effective. But who knows, maybe the 2013 Mac Pro will meet your needs. |
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