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03/09
21:55
Xserve and Xraid
My babies were taken away from me a little over 2 weeks ago… With our lab closing down and all, stuff had to go. The Mac servers which I’ve so painstakingly set up were sent off to another university in Kyushu. I would have loved to bring them home. ^^.
The Xserve and Xraid server rack. Apple doesn’t do the Xraid anymore. I suppose the Xraid is now a collector’s item? No?
We only had one of each. It was our file server.
That’s alot of harddisk slots isn’t it. ^^.
The all important server key. Lose this, and it’s a going to be a real bother unlocking the servers.
Just photos of silver apples.
It’s fun being in a computational mechanics lab. You get to use many fast calculation servers. We used our Xserve G5 only for serving files. Imagine what we had for number crunching. ^^.
That’s how the Xserve G5 looks like inside. Very pretty.
I hope the servers get used where they are going. Would be a real waste if they were just left in a room gathering dust. Don’t know many people who actually touched or have seen an Xserve in the flesh (or aluminum shell). Xraid even! Am glad that I had a chance to tinker around, play with and administer it. It was a blast! ^^.
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March 31st, 2009 at 9:38 am
Computational mechanics. ^^. We crunch numbers and avoid performing experiments.
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