Alternatively, they could use this setup for missile strikes, detonation of nuclear bombs, or global domination.
Holy crap, what a setup!
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Alternatively, they could use this setup for missile strikes, detonation of nuclear bombs, or global domination.
Holy crap, what a setup!
That cost a pretty penny
yeah it did! man, that's a lot of stuff!
one day i'll own 1 xserve.....1
I don't necessarily know why it would be any more honor. To be fair, some of Dell's newer high-end server chassis' and blade systems are _really_ slick. You're still running the same ethernet cables into the same switches through the same cable management, and running the same fiber through the same fiber conduit into the same fiber switches, and the same power into the same power management...
I was just being facetious. I have no clue what I'm talking about! Sorry for teasing you.
You've got to be kidding me
I know MR needs to pay the bills and all but come on - there is a Windows 2008 Server ad right in the middle of the headlines. My eyes hurt - a lot. Actually, at first I thought it was a joke (London Exchange Choses Windows Server 2008 because of reliability - I mean come on, they can't be serious right???) but then I saw it actually took you to a microsoft page. ewwwww...............
I know MR needs to pay the bills and all but come on - there is a Windows 2008 Server ad right in the middle of the headlines. My eyes hurt - a lot. Actually, at first I thought it was a joke (London Exchange Choses Windows Server 2008 because of reliability - I mean come on, they can't be serious right???) but then I saw it actually took you to a microsoft page. ewwwww...............
What are all the cables here? I can't identify some of them
(apologies for big pic)
If I were to take a guess, from the top down....
Power
(orange cable)-Fibre to the Xserve cluster
(black cable)-RGB video to some sort of camera or one of those new break-out boxes
30" or 2x24" monitor
Various usb/firewire/ethernet
Thanks - you've raised more questions!:
- 4x optic fibre? Is one not enough?
- RGB - from / to an analogue camera / breakout box? (breaking the digital production paradigm?)
- Why would a showbooth stand need 2x ethernet?
- And what are these two white boxes?
- Also, the 'power' lead - is that a captive power lead (I don't own a Mac Pro) - have Apple moved away from the usual 'kettle' style power connector that most PCs have?
The system has two independent point-to-point Fibre Channel links, each link has one outgoing (TX) and one incoming (RX) optical cabel. That is why you see want looks like four optical connections up near the system.
Those are likely component video outputs or inputs (can't tell which).
Simply for redundancy (if one fails the other can take over), for link aggregation, or one is the data network and the other is used to manage the systems centrally.
The power supplies for the 23" Cinema Displays.
No it is a removable power cord just like you would see on a PC.
when i have half a million dollars to blow, i am buying one of those.
holy crap that thing must be fast!
i mean only 750,000,000,000,000 bytes of data storage. that is a complete joke. apple should come back when they are ready to play with the big boys.
holy crap that thing must be fast!
i mean only 750,000,000,000,000 bytes of data storage. that is a complete joke. apple should come back when they are ready to play with the big boys.
??
Dual core, not quad core?
How thoroughly 2006 this setup is...
I wonder how many disk drives fail per hour?
Dual core, not quad core?
How thoroughly 2006 this setup is...
I wonder how many disk drives fail per hour?
On Photoshop, no faster than a Mac Pro
If your task can't be split into 380 threads on 90 systems, it won't be any faster than it is on one....
Is it one federated filesystem, or 750 separate ones? Let's see, that would be drive C: through drive LYW:, right?
If your task can't be split into 380 threads on 90 systems, it won't be any faster than it is on one....
Is it one federated filesystem, or 750 separate ones? Let's see, that would be drive C: through drive LYW:, right?
What!?!? The basement???? That cluster deservs the central and most visible part of your house!!!!
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Rodrigo Gómez
So, while you can transmit and receive on the same piece of fiber, such a system is rarely used (I think Verizon FiOS does this). Typically you always have a TX (transmit) and an RX (receive) fiber. The reason there are two pairs of such cables is because SAN (e.g. Xserve RAID) when done right has two independent switching fabrics, typically referred to as Fabric X and Fabric Y or Fabric A and Fabric B. This means every host has a connection to two switches. Disk arrays have connections to the same two fabrics as well. This allows for good resiliency. It's common in the industry to have SAN boot, which means your server has no actual disk of its own, it's all on the SAN. This is good from a management perspective, but it also means that you pretty much can't survive any disk availability outage whatsoever, hence the added resiliency.