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Originally posted by G4scott I wonder if they'll do clustering, and if so, how would they connect? I know that there are ways to setup a render farm over a network, but if you could daisy-chain these suckers together with a special, high bandwidth cable coming from a PCI card, that would totally kick @$$ [/B]
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First off, Happy birthday G4scott!

You should definitely check out www.beowulf.org/ and get your university to strap together some old computers they have lying around.

as for "How would they connect?" Gigabit Ethernet, that's how, only if fast ethernet wasn't fast enough.
You could get a Cisco 6513 with a switch fabric module and a bunch of 16 port gigE copper blades, and you could have some serious network capacity! 10Gig Ethernet is already out, but it does not make much sense (to tell you the truth, due to the fact that each module on a 6500 switch has a maximum capacity of 8gigbits/sec if it needs to go across the backplane, there are some limitations.

Get your cluster and run the setiathome command line on all the boxes and sign em up for team macrumors.com :D
 
nice!

i believe a recent rumor said they would start at $899. who knows...would these babies be capable of running an OS, like a regular machine? i'd love to have a rackmount to take to gigs. it would be so much more solid than my Tibook.
 
G4Scott, actually everyone...Remember that Red MB pic off Ebay, remember that 'Mysterious port' If that's gigawire, you could connect all these by that, and wow. Or you could just use the gigabit ethernet that's built in :) Anyhow back to you G4Scott ::laughs evily:: No j/k, go to Google and type in 'Appleseed' and you shall see that monsterous power of the G4. These dudes in Portugal have that largest one with 14 nodes (onyl 14! The other guy was talking about 250!!), all DP 450's and they do live renderations of plasma and toehr particle physics. Also these other dudes, [there are alot on the site, i can't really cite because I forget, all I can say is read] used it for calculating some part of how neutron stars react with each other. I believe it was only a part though, beccause the dudes at Columbia do it and they have like 4 Cray SV1's or whatever the newest hottest ones are working on it, and it takes THEM along time. Anyhow, the Appleseed is a good alternative if you need a 'cheap' supercomputer :) Anyone wanna pool some cash for Team MacObserver
Seti?? :D

fix - Did I say Team MacObserver? I meant Team MacRumors of course! ;)
 
Ahh! I can't get enough of this! Here's the picture :D :
 

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Originally posted by peterjhill

First off, Happy birthday G4scott!
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Thanks, but I thought tomorrow was my birthday (the 9th)... :) Thanks anyways...

What Apple needs, is an NOS that can automatically detect when a computer is clustered, and lets the OS take full power of the setup... now that would be cool... Even if just the plain MacOS could do that... I could use the power of my G4 from my iBook! That would rock...
 
Best looking rack server ever!

Now if we can afford the software necessary to move our operations to OSX from 9, and if the iRack (!) isnt too expensive (!), we may get two of these......
If we can sell our 3 G3 B and W servers......which once seemed so cool.....
 
you know i was thinking about it...it doesn't look like the new server has removable or hot swapable drives. If that picture from WWDC is legit. Maybe they're going to sell a RAID array as well.

Anyone have any thoughts?
 
495 posts to go....

i need 495 more posts to be able to add a pic to my signature....

guess ill have to start speaking up more!

zed
 
Re: 495 posts to go....

Originally posted by zed
i need 495 more posts to be able to add a pic to my signature....

guess ill have to start speaking up more!

zed
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Yeah, 0.06 posts per day. You'll have to get that # up. We'd love to hear from you. Just try to add to the conversation at hand, MR is an open forum with open people.
 
Re: NEW RACK?

Originally posted by marco114
This was posted on SpyMac in the photo gallery by a user, looks a little fake, but you never know:[/QUOTE

The Bender hopes above all hope that it's not real, and judging from its source, he'll be just fine. That thing is huge! What happened to the 1U rumor? It also looks like it's made out of the stuff in the middle of Kendal Mint Cake.

And you're right about it's false appearance, too.

Man, even I've got a better looking rack than that!
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It's JUST a Rack Mount

Hey,

For all you guys saying 'wow this is beautiful' or 'outch it's ugly': it's just a rack mount!

Rack mounts are supposed to be in a closed rack, far away in a large computer room (I should know, 'cause we have a lot of racks at work (mostly Dells and IBM's)), and I honestly think most of ya' people will never ever need a rack mount, so I hope noone here will buy a rack mount "just to have one".

They're supposed to be compact and functional. Not beautiful.

(Of course, it's always nice when they're beautiful... ;))

k.
 
Who says rack-mount servers should be ugly to go in closed racks? We use glass doors, and these will look excellent... (I just need to convince management to buy a couple - maybe I could sell it on looks alone):D :confused:
 
If you put stacks of them together, then I think they remind me of HAL in 2001 and 2010, you know the room, where you can turn HAL on and off....... similar venting styles.....

I think Apple are on a bit of a 2001 oddessy with their design at the moment, so everything has that real clean and modern, yet futuristic look about them...

I like........ :D
 
Originally posted by G4scott
I could use the power of my G4 from my iBook! That would rock...
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Yeah, I would like to see Apple follow Microsoft and add a Remote Desktop client with every copy of OSX. Ad the functionality of Windows Terminal Server, where you can have a bunch of people logged into the same server, each with their own desktops.

This gives a good reason to have a rack with lots of procs. Why would you want to do this? It would allow you to run OSX on older Macs with a fast network connection. Where would it be useful? Libraries for one, I know a few that use Terminal servers for their public computers.
 
Originally posted by peterjhill


Yeah, I would like to see Apple follow Microsoft and add a Remote Desktop client with every copy of OSX. Ad the functionality of Windows Terminal Server, where you can have a bunch of people logged into the same server, each with their own desktops.
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This would let Apple remove the video hardware from the Mac rack, which would be a plus.


blakespot
 
The picture of the rackmount on the screen at the WWDC makes it look like it is either all metal or white with metal. That would explain why all of the connectors on the back of the red motherboard from ebay had white insides.
 
Originally posted by mcrain
The picture of the rackmount on the screen at the WWDC makes it look like it is either all metal or white with metal. That would explain why all of the connectors on the back of the red motherboard from ebay had white insides.
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The motherboard on eBay is obviously not the motherboard for these racks. Did you note the 4 PCI + 1 AGP slot on that board? There is no room in a rack-mount case for cards to sit in those slots! The Apple rack may end up not being 1U, but it's definitely not a full-height (tower width) rack mount unit, which would be required for slot arrangement like that.

In slim rack units, if there is a slot, there is usually one or two side-oriented slots (PCI card would run parallel to the motherboard). I am guessing there will be 1 PCI slot in the rack, side oriented.



blakespot
 
oh no...it's Uniblab...

Shocking news! Gateway "cow" advises CEO on new server specs! Company beats competition with amazing Uniblab Rack Server, where the Server is actually the Rack! Apple stock nosedives!
 

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blakespot

This may be the wrong place to post this. But since I'm still new to this Froum I wasn't sure (and a bit to lazy) to figure out how to tell you directly... My girlfriend has a tattoo of your icon on her back. Also I like the look of the rackmount server.

Steve
 
Originally posted by blakespot

The motherboard on eBay is obviously not the motherboard for these racks. Did you note the 4 PCI + 1 AGP slot on that board? There is no room in a rack-mount case for cards to sit in those slots! The Apple rack may end up not being 1U, but it's definitely not a full-height (tower width) rack mount unit, which would be required for slot arrangement like that.

In slim rack units, if there is a slot, there is usually one or two side-oriented slots (PCI card would run parallel to the motherboard). I am guessing there will be 1 PCI slot in the rack, side oriented.

blakespot
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It was "supposedly" (key word here being supposedly) a pre-production prototype. If so, it could have been one of any number of mock ups they did to test things and to use to decide what final form they would use. The reason the white in the plugs is important is because it shows what sort of exterior theme they had in mind when designing the "box." If the plugs were black or grey or some color, that would also be telling.

My only point is that the plugs on the "maybe" proto server board were white, and now, we have a pic of a rackmount server that looks either white with chrome, or all metal.

It just gives the proto-board a tiny bit more credibility because its plugs aren't a completely different color scheme than what's being released.
 
Apple's always made computers that looked good.

You might say they've always had a pretty face.

Now they've got a nice rack too.

I hope it's stuffed full of sillycon (sic).

Coitus

Think anybody will yell "show us your rack" to Steve on stage at the launch
 
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