rackmount g4 server, perfect for musicians? Options

[damann]

you're right , i knew it as i typed...
let's declare this thread 'over' until it becomes more relevant.
i have to say, on a positive note though, that on a personal level some good discussion/information has come to light here.
thanks guys, here's to the future...
finally, protulz, as they say in america, 'i'm feeling you dude' !!!
maybe that will become apple's anacronym for mlan.

[lepetitmartien]

MLan is for Apple FAN (Firewire Audio Network if I remember ok)

(until they settle for a generic name like Firewire… say… Mlan

[damann]

ifeel, funny though.
iwalk,
shit, idigress...

[lepetitmartien]

There's an article on the rack and the soft in the Macworld Fr (so, there must be one un the american one) that came today. I'll red it by the WE. maybe there something between the press release excerpts…

[lepetitmartien]

I red the article, after all the press release stuff there was an hint that a mac could access the processing power from the rack, the rack cooperating to the processes of the actual station working under the happy fingers of a power hungry creator.

Anyway… it's not much… and no detail (does it need a specific support from apps in OSX to ensure the cooperation…)

But then, why don't they do a 10 processors machine ? It'd be simpler, maybe and less expensive.

Also the first systems are only shipping now (4000 on the bill) I think with the announccements in a fex days now, we'll have a clearer route. And a date for POWER!

Stupid they thought to make the systems accessible, and non typical server users starve about info about the main interesting spec of it.

[damann]

thanks for the info dude!
i guess i'll wait for the time being, obviously as a musician the idea of a 1u racking solution instead of the bulk of a g4 tower was the appeal.
what with so many fundamental changes around the corner i may as well just squeeze the last drop of juice out of my current machine!
480 gb of hot swappable hard drive is just so appealing though...

[lepetitmartien]

"Wait, the moto, is. Dark, the travel, to the real, power. The Force"
Yoda (well, kind of me

[CeJeRo]

I would bet money (or music hardware ) that the XServe would have no problem with running OS 9.2.2 it's really a G4 beefed up to support for networks and IT. The advantages are of course Rackmount, clustering (possibly), size and speed, DDR RAM speed. Disadvantages.... OS 9.2.2 supporting DDR RAM architecture, lack of PCI SLOTS!!! I think that last one sums it all up right there, the XServe has 2 or 3 PCI slots... pros kill for more PCI slots which is why PROTOOLS is so popular on 9600s (since ProTools doesn't rely on Processor the can cram more MIX farm cards into the machine for more power than a dual 1GHz VST based machine can muster up.) So if you really don't need PCI slots, XServe would rock, then again you acn always get a MagMA expansion chassis (www.magma.com) and add more PCI slots, so basically I just answered my own question, ok the XSERVE F*CKIN ROCKS!!!! GET IT!

-Chris-

[prutulz]

Did you heard about someone successfully running a protools on the Xserve?

It would a coooool machine if it accepts and runs a PT Mix++ inside.
Running from logic audio and taking advantage of the G4 power, would certainly be the smallest coolest mac-audio machine...

I would kill for it

[lepetitmartien]

Prutulz, does the words "MacOS X" have appeared on the Digi shedule?

(no

So one day, when Digi will kindly interest itself to it… maybe…

On my part, I'd kill for it with a price drop (so I can buy many, that is