Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
- From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:20:07 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Mac minis
http://blog.macminicolo.net/post/34175374589/impressions-of-the-2012-mac-mini-updated
http://www.macminicolo.net/facility.html
Check the photos out to see what that many minis would look like. Take a trip to Las Vegas to see them. You could also ask them how they deal with single power supplies. Maybe they could give you statistics on failures.
On Oct 24, 2012, at 2:34 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
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> On 10/24/12 2:03 PM, "Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D"
> <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> (760)939-7097
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>> -----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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