What do people use mac servers for?
It's not strictly speaking a server even. Just a rented personal computer.
Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
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Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#52I was part of the team that built this project at Scaleway, ask me anything
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#53not sure why the attach rpi for every mac mini, wouldn't it be cheaper to have one rpi and 9 mac minis connectd to 10 port switch? I also wished one day to make cluster out of Apple TVs - they are very cheap (~150usd for version with ethernet) and most likely the new upcoming version will have more powerful A-series apple sillicon. I guess tvOS is just very restricted.
Simpler design... let alone constraints of the USB and/or other interfaces in use. Not to mention 1:1 of management port access to system access, where other solutions may be problematic.
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#54Are they powering them with USB-C? I didn't think that was possible/supported.
No, the USB-C is just there to act as a KVM for administrating purpose, as the MDM hasn't enough administration capability
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#55How does the Pi communicate with the Mini? Software stack? Zero details and useful information in this post.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
also hot air rises, and the vent is on the bottom
Why are they still even in the cases? I would assume that shucking them would ever so slightly improve thermals.
Aluminium designed in as heat sink perhaps? But not sure if this is so relevant in an actively cooled DC setting as passive buried under cables at a home workspace!
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#57You'd think that from an environmental point of view, Apple would be able to sell packs of Mac Mini boards without the case and packaging for people doing this; with no physical board or electronic change, it would be easy.
I get it, but I’ve never really bought into the idea that Apple optimizes for the environment out of pure altruism.
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#58I was part of the team that built this project at Scaleway, ask me anything
My experience with a mac mini in a small R&D team has been a nightmare : the OS sucks so much for anything that is not a single user (at a time) on the machine, coming from the Systemd/Linux world
What was your experience ?
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#59What do people use mac servers for?
Generally the main purpose was CI, blockchain mining and AI training
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#60How does the Pi communicate with the Mini? Software stack? Zero details and useful information in this post.
Yeah, I was hoping for more detail as well. I'm guessing they did something similar to what I did to make my Pi control computers.[0] The Raspberry Pi 4 can emulate a USB keyboard and mouse, and there are inexpensive adapters that allow it to capture display output. You can also hook it up to a relay to cycle power for an external device. [0] https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/
Yeah, my guess was something like pikvm as well.