MacStadium is a hosting company specializing in hosting and managing servers running the OS X operating system. According to MacStadium, the new Mac Pro absolutely ideal to be a heavily used server. Mac products have earned their reputation as being completely reliable, compact and environmentally friendly. Unfortunately MacBook, Mac mini and iMac have limitations due to their RAM limitations, processors, or size. Existing Mac Pro It is not very popular for server rooms due to its physical size, high power consumption, and currently also due to its unsuitable architecture.
Nový Mac Pro However, according to MacStadium, it is an absolutely ideal machine and is destined to become a very popular server. Mac Pro offers a truly great leap forward, as the computer was designed to use the best componenty for servers that Intel currently has available. MacStadium also adds an overview of why the new Mac Pro favorite.
- New generation Xeon E5 CPU and up to 12 physical cores.
- Up to 128 GB Quad Channel 1866Ghz ECC RAM @ 60 Gbps memory throughput.
- PCIe (PCI Express) Flash Solid State Storage@1.25GB/s read, 1,0GB/s write.
- Dual ATI / AMD FirePro GPU with 6GB of VRAM
- Small, energy-efficient 6.6" x 9.9" shape and miniLow power consumption.
- Any operating system, including OSX, Windows, CentOS , Ubuntu and virtualization platforms.
Data centers are always very demanding in terms of square footage. The larger your server room or data center, the higher not only the energy costs, but especially the air conditioning costs. According to MacStadium, the new Mac Pro will reduce these costs and the data center with a new storage system, created specifically for the new generation Mac Pro, can place 270 Mac Pro on just twelve square meters and yet reliably cool them. The energy savings in power consumption and energy consumption for air conditioning should be so significant that MacStadium will not only offer the possibility of placing your own server Mac Pro into their hosting, but will also offer a number of its own Mac Pro for rent. As soon as the new Mac Pro The first pieces will also be available at MacStadium, where there are currently more than 1200 Mac mini servers. Mac Pro will be available for monthly rental, purchase or for creating virtual servers.
*Source: Macstadium.com
Roman, although new Mac Pro I consider the repair to be a VERY interesting and successful piece of HW. So it's really not suitable for building data centers from it ;-)
And it really has several fundamental reasons.
1) Density – today, if you use regular blade servers for data centers, you can cram them into a single 800x800mm cabinet. miniAt least 64 servers, each with 2 eight-core CPUs. That's 128 CPUs in an area of 0,64 square meters :)
2) Cooling system - today a system of closed warm and cold aisles is used almost exclusively for data centers, not surface cooling, and this particular rack would run into that because the servers are in two rows
3) Redundancyance – Today, HW needs to be replaced while it is running. Whether it is disks, power supplies or even the servers themselves. Everything is in plug-in slots and can be replaced piece by piece in seconds. This is Mac Pro it doesn't work.
4) TooneActivity – This is where you will probably encounter the most. Gigabit Ethernet is fun for kids compared tooneactivity of professional servers :-)
There we are always talking about several pieces (just 24 pieces) of ports with speeds in the tens of Gbps.
So all in all – probably fine as a single server, but even here you have to use an external disk array.
But as a powerful desktop, it definitely sucks.
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it is not 12 m2 but about 1,1 m2
see the source / it states it in square feet/
dojan is right that it is 12 square feet which is 1,1 m2. But it's the floor space that that server cabinet takes up.
In my opinion, it could also fit on the 1,1 m2 of floor space. If the picture is correct... why not?
To add, it is, for example, a cabinet with a width of 200 cm and a depth of 55 cm. With that depth, 2 MacPros should fit behind each other.
As shown in the picture, 9x15x2 rows is 270 :)
@Whipp: Far from it Apple the hardware runs OSX... In theory, of course, it's like that, in practice I can run OSX even on VMware ESXi (DELL server)... And the OSX 10.9 I'm writing from is not an iMac either... Even if it looks like it... ;)
@Simonides: Exactly, in today's era of virtualization, you can basically run any SW on any HW :)
Yes, it is not an area of 12 m2, but something around that meter. But it still can't replace adult servers :)