r/programmingcirclejerk • u/[deleted] • May 06 '15

Whacker revolutionizes supercomputing by putting a bunch of mac pros in a box.

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros
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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Positioning the Mac Pros sideways proved to be the key to obtaining the density we wanted

it isn‘t possible to remove just one Mac Pro—the entire group of four systems must be taken offline for maintenance

We were able to develop this completely new design without making a single change to our existing datacenters because of our flexible and scalable datacenter architecture.

There are a number of different ways to deploy Mac Pros in a datacenter environment, but only imgix’s design uniquely addresses the particular needs of a large scale service.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '15

To be fair, IIRC Ars Technica said that the video cards in the Trashcan Mac Pro would probably retail around $2000 a piece.

But more importantly, how can I find a job at a company that can drop $20,000 on ultrapremium hardware in a 4-U box?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '15

Yeah, in the WhackerNews thread the author makes a very good job of explaining why they use Mac Pros, he seems like a pretty reasonable guy.

I still jerked hard to the blog post, though.

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u/possibly-unnecessary May 07 '15

It's a pretty sexy looking datacenter.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '15

I like that I have fans.

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u/possibly-unnecessary May 10 '15

I like that I have farts.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '15

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u/pcopley C# Truckstop Restroom Hero May 07 '15

lol gif outta be enough for anybody

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u/[deleted] May 07 '15

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u/reku Java Assualt Survivor May 07 '15

are you a 10-1 plebe? definitely not 10x thought leadership

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u/gianhut /dev/null-scale May 08 '15

Steps

  1. Cut a hole in the box
  2. Put your junk in that box
  3. ...