On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:58:55AM CST, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wouldn't expect Apple to use minis . . although XGrid might be a > possibility the lack of FC in the mini and the rack inefficiency of > Pros makes them unlikely. Strictly from a server standpoint . . > .commodity server hardware running Red Hat or a modified Darwin kernel > seems like the best solution . . .although given that they might want > to eat their own dog food the virtualized Lion installations running > on VMWare might be a good idea as well. They could even XGrid a bunch > of relatively small VMs to spread the performance across multiple > physical hosts and let all of the FC/SAN stuff be handled by the > commodity hardware.
I think commodity hardware is the most practical path, but on a much larger scale. Maybe Steve Jobs took a page from Eric Schmidt and developed an Apple version of the Google Cluster Architecture? -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
