drool - 85 node xserve cluster [pic only]

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hirhir
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
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Next time, please thumbnail or link your images.







Will do! Didn't realize the photo would be so large. Thanks. -- hir

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  • Reply 1 of 20
    othelloothello Posts: 1,054member
    see those lights!!
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    chopper3chopper3 Posts: 293member
    It's a pity that they've wasted 1U between each box, they run perfectly well on top of each other, oh and I'm surprised that they've done some of the power cabling at the front, much tidier to do them at the back as part of the overall cable management.



    What's this being used for?
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  • Reply 3 of 20
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    The real question is... why is the guy in the booth using a podunk little powerbook!
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    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    secksy
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    tacojohntacojohn Posts: 980member
    I bet he's using it to admin all those machines. You need something to controll them! Can you imagine the power? Yummmmmmmmmmmmm!



    I wonder how much storage?
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  • Reply 6 of 20
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    I'm imagining how loud that rig must be. Yikes!



    I'm thinking this, because I replaced my PC at work with my 17" iMac for the day... and probably discovered why I live 24/7 with ringing in my ears. The silence was golden.
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  • Reply 7 of 20
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    Those glass doors are not a good idea; I wonder if they have airflow trouble.



    Here's the rest of the pics:



    http://bioteam.net/gallery/XserveCluster-TLL
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  • Reply 8 of 20
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Damn, am I a geek or what??? I go out drinking and then look at illicit photos of.... xServes....
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  • Reply 9 of 20
    mac os x addictmac os x addict Posts: 322member
    Looks like that guy in the reflection is on a Ti if my reflection senses are working.
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    shawnpatrickjoyceshawnpatrickjoyce Posts: 2,417member
    Oh baby.
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  • Reply 11 of 20
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    I wonder how much this whole setting costs
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  • Reply 12 of 20
    screedscreed Posts: 1,077member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Chopper3

    It's a pity that they've wasted 1U between each box, they run perfectly well on top of each other, oh and I'm surprised that they've done some of the power cabling at the front, much tidier to do them at the back as part of the overall cable management.



    What's this being used for?



    Tending over a pair of rack cabinets myself, the spaces don't look like a full 1U each. Besides, count them. 28 Xserves in the first cabinet. A standard rack cabinet is 42Us.



    Screed
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  • Reply 13 of 20
    chopper3chopper3 Posts: 293member
    You're right, I meant one "hole"/third-of-a-U, either way - no need for the waste of space.
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  • Reply 14 of 20
    myahmacmyahmac Posts: 222member
    the last 10 are weird. inall the other xserves there are two hd lights, probably mirroed raid right? but in the last ten, 5 have no lights and 5 have four lights.



    why?
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  • Reply 15 of 20
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    Sweet looking setup!
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  • Reply 16 of 20
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Leonis

    I wonder how much this whole setting costs



    definetly a lot of pocket money!
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  • Reply 17 of 20
    spotcatbugspotcatbug Posts: 195member
    Just looking at that photo makes the ringing in my ears louder.
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  • Reply 18 of 20
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I'm wondering more about how much money they wasted on these... XServes are a great deal, but look at the pic of the back of the XServes on Page 2, the first one I think... look at all the unused extra ethernet ports and video cards!



    EDIT: Eh, I suppose they'd eventually have to connect a monitor to most of them at some point. But generally isn't there one of them that has a monitor and you can control the others from that one?
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  • Reply 19 of 20
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Luca Rescigno

    I'm wondering more about how much money they wasted on these... XServes are a great deal, but look at the pic of the back of the XServes on Page 2, the first one I think... look at all the unused extra ethernet ports and video cards!



    Those are first-generation Xserves with tray-loading CD-ROM drives, so I'd think they didn't have the option to buy cluster-nodes or Xserve RAID. Also notice how all the bays come with Apple HDD carriers...They've probably created a huge single volume from all those HDDs...



    I also doubt this group has much in terms of budget constraints...
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  • Reply 20 of 20
    spotcatbugspotcatbug Posts: 195member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene



    I also doubt this group has much in terms of budget constraints...



    Next month's order: Ferrari cluster.
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