Re: [NTLK] [OT] apple does server

From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 02:19:58 EDT


> 15000 RPM drives generate a tremendous ammount of heat. They have not

   Can they be liquid-cooled (is that neccessary, or just a really big
heat-sink) That would be made into some cool industrial design - the
x-serve box as it is now with a couple of pipes running along the edges,
with perhaps a transparent heat-exchanger unit - of course, we're
talking things that will most likely go in a moderately cold room with 2
or 3 monitors and loud fans and cables hung over everywhere, not hanging
next to some geek's coat in the coat-rack.. At least I don't think we
are (but if I had 3K to spend on a sever, I might consider it..)

> And it depends on what you mean by "clustering". There are computing
> cluster environments like Beowulf and there are service sharing cluster
> environments like TruCluster. They share little in common.

   I don't know what a TruCluster is, but I've read that MacOS X
theoretically supports a type of clustering where all the machines will
act as one really fast CPU (with some really bad latency issues I would
presume). And I figure at some point Apple will figure out how to get
their bus architecture fast enough to do more than 2-CPU computers (or
move to a new architecture all together), so we might see quad- or
octal- (octet?) CPU configs some day.

Jim

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