Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
- From: "Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:31:13 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] OS on new hardware?
The integration of XSan into Lion really makes this quite nice. You can now put together an Xsan deployment with some Mac Minis, Mac Pros or iMacs. Lots of flexibility there and the barrier to entry on clustered storage is getting lower.
--Jason
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Jason Miller
NOMAD Chief Engineer
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On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Blackmon Jerry (Contractor) wrote:
> I've got an expanding video division. There aint much a Mac Pro can do that a high end iMac can't, as confirmed by an experiment I initiated about a year and a half ago now. The one advantage the Pro has over everything else, given how we use it, is slots for extra video cards and internal storage. But why would you need video cards if you can daisy chain Cinema Displays together via Thunderbolt? And what's the point of internal storage when the machine's on a gigabit network? Put a RAID in the machine for working projects, as we do, and store on a SAN across the network. Or connect a 16TB external RAID to the Thunderbolt chain. FC7 is not multi-core optimized anyway, so 12-core machines really don't give you any appreciable advantage over any other processor.
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> The same is true in my design division. We upgraded from G5s to prior generation x86 pros. Yes there were dramatic speed increases (though not really all that dramatic given how advanced the G5s already were) but … seems like we're throwing a lot of money and hardware at a problem that could be solved with cheaper kit.
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> I don't want to say the handwriting is on the wall, but all the pieces are there for Apple to pull the plug if it wants. Can't see what of value will have been lost. As Peter said, thin is in. If Apple can put a G4 in a cube with no fan, I'm pretty sure it could do the same with an i7.
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> Trucks.
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> Jerry Blackmon <email@hidden>
> Engraving Support: Mac Specialist
> Senior Systems Administrator, OITO
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> "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails." -- William Arthur Ward
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