[9fans] mini mac

[9fans] mini mac

[Steve Simon]

How about one of these as a terminal, and a rack
full as a grid?

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

All I need now is my faster than light spaceship
to invent the time to do the port...

-Steve

Re: [9fans] mini mac

[David Tolpin]

On 13.01.2005, at 20:08, Steve Simon wrote:

> How about one of these as a terminal, and a rack
> full as a grid?
>
> http://www.apple.com/macmini/
>
> All I need now is my faster than light spaceship
> to invent the time to do the port...
>

Or just make a natively looking nicely working drawterm. Carbon 
programming seems to be not as horrible as I thought it would. The only 
obstacle is that I only have one day per week for this.

Re: [9fans] mini mac

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Steve Simon wrote:

> How about one of these as a terminal, and a rack
> full as a grid?

I don't like the local disk. 

That said, they sure are cute.

ron

RE: [9fans] mini mac

[Benjamin Huntsman]

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>I don't like the local disk.

What's wrong with the disk?  At that price (decent for modern PPC hardware) you could just as easily remove it.

We just oredered one for our streaming-radio station.  I'll be using it for P9/Inferno stuff on the side.

> How about one of these as a terminal, and a rack
> full as a grid?
Anyone set up a functional XGrid?  I toyed around a bit when I had a few extra macs... not sure that it's the best solution, especially since it's over ethernet, but I don't have any actual performance numbers...

-Ben


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RE: [9fans] mini mac

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:

> What's wrong with the disk?  At that price (decent for modern PPC
> hardware) you could just as easily remove it.

for cluster building I mean. I don't do local disks. They suck. That's my
only reason. For most people, it's fine. I would probably never spin that 
local disk up ...

ron

RE: [9fans] mini mac

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

--On 2005-1-13 10:59 AM -0700 "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> 
wrote:

> for cluster building I mean. I don't do local disks. They suck.
> That's my only reason. For most people, it's fine. I would probably
> never spin that  local disk up ...

I haven't looked yet ... does it handle a real net boot?

--lyndon

Re: [9fans] mini mac

[boyd, rounin]

>> for cluster building I mean. I don't do local disks. They suck.

no disk.  no fan.

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