Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
- From: William Cerniuk <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:10:34 -0400
You know it's coming ;-) It is just a matter of software.
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R/Wm.
On Oct 24, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Joel Peterson <email@hidden> wrote:
> The Department of Veterans Affairs at Palo Alto has a very large Xserve
> installation for clinical gastrointestinal imaging. It's pretty
> impressive. Apple is regularly providing assistance even though they are
> seemingly moving out of the server market.
>
> The technical lead for this project and I have always wondered why Apple
> just doesn't support chaining together Mac mini's via Thunderbolt for the
> hardware and Xgrid for the software. It seems to be it would be a cheap
> and easy way to scale up to many distributed nodes, being able to support
> handful of node failures depending on how those nodes are chained.
>
> It'd be a heck of a thing to see, five 48U racks jammed full of as many
> Mac minis as possible.
>
> Joel Peterson
> email@hidden
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>
> On 10/24/12 2:03 PM, "Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D"
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Greetings Todd,
>> What if you consider the Mini itself to be the swappable device? The
>> notion of swappable has applied to very large machines, and the Mini is
>> far from large. Its thunderbolt port gives it a connection to the Fiber
>> Channel RAID systems and it can carry 16GB of memory. The so called
>> Fusion drives may be all one needs to kick start one, and four or more
>> can fit on a rack mounted tray. So what if the Mini itself were the
>> swappable device?
>>
>> V/R,
>>
>> Daniel Beatty, Ph.D.
>> Computer Scientist
>> Code 474300D
>> 1 Administration Circle. M/S 1109
>> China Lake, CA 93555
>> email@hidden
>> (760)939-7097
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fed-talk-bounces+daniel.beatty=email@hidden
>> [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+daniel.beatty=email@hidden] On
>> Behalf Of Todd Heberlein
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 13:56
>> To: email@hidden Talk
>> Subject: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
>>
>> I know there are a lot of limitations with the Mac mini hardware for
>> mission critical servers (e.g., no hot-swappable components) and Apple's
>> server software, but I still thought this was interesting:
>>
>> Impressions of the 2012 Mac mini
>> http://blog.macminicolo.net/post/34175374589/impressions-of-the-2012-mac-m
>> ini-updated
>>
>>
>> Don't look now, but the new Mac minis are getting comparable to the last
>> gen Xserve and 2010 Mac Pros as far as benchmarks. Tech progress marches
>> on.
>>
>>
>> The Fusion Drive is only available for the middle ($799) Mac mini.
>> Again, going to be very popular. It's a $250 upgrade for the Fusion Drive.
>>
>>
>> (I'm typing this on a Mac Pro I bought last year (Mid 2010 model), and I
>> think it is feeling a little threatened)
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> PS. The picture at the bottom is amusing.
>>
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