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
#2I’d like to know what’s on the baseboard that the Pi is attached to
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#3Todays game of was it AI generated?
> The compact size of the Mac mini, which packs a powerful System on a Chip (SoC) into a tiny footprint.The energy efficiency of Apple silicon (M-series) chips, which allows high density without overheating or excessive power draw.
This really adds nothing to the article, and looks like AI fluff to me.
Combine that with there being a bold section in like every single paragraph, I'm going to assume yes
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#4I’d like to know what’s on the baseboard that the Pi is attached to
Looks like some sort of power supply converter? Maybe a USB-C power splitter.
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#5Todays game of was it AI generated? > The compact size of the Mac mini, which packs a powerful System on a Chip (SoC) into a tiny footprint.The energy efficiency of Apple silicon (M-series) chips, which allows high density without overheating or excessive power draw. This really adds nothing to the article, and looks like AI fluff to me. Combine that with there being a bold section in like every single paragraph, I'm…
If it smells like ai…
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#6not 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.
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#7I’d like to know what’s on the baseboard that the Pi is attached to
Looks like a relay so probably to powercycle it.
Don't think everything needed is included in the picture. Definitely additional cables for power and networking would need to be added
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#8How does the Pi communicate with the Mini? Software stack? Zero details and useful information in this post.
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#9https://www-uploads.scaleway.com/Mac_mini_rack_1_e31ad1da6e....
This is not the image I expected to encounter under the title, “high density”.
Make those sleds taller and do three, maybe four per sled with a pair of large diameter fans. That’ll would be high density. This is medium at best.
Re: Scaleway turns Mac Minis into high‑density, Raspberry Pi–managed servers
#10Todays game of was it AI generated? > The compact size of the Mac mini, which packs a powerful System on a Chip (SoC) into a tiny footprint.The energy efficiency of Apple silicon (M-series) chips, which allows high density without overheating or excessive power draw. This really adds nothing to the article, and looks like AI fluff to me. Combine that with there being a bold section in like every single paragraph, I'm…
It doesn't? If you didn't know those two things, they seem highly relevant to the subject being discussed. They define SoC, which might be an acronym you've known since high school (I did, but I'm a total nerd), and it justifies why use Mac minis instead of what usually gets used.
As to whether it was AI generated or not, who cares? It's useful information if you didn't know it already, and if those words came out of matrix math or someone non-technical with a BS in communications, does it really matter to you? Are you going hungry tonight because the money that went to creating those words went to Nvidia and not Sarah in Marketing? Sarah in Marketing might be out of a job soon, but her boyfriend has a good job that's not threatened by AI, so I hope she'll be fine, but I don't know. Is that the underlying worry here?
There is an emdash in the article though, you didn't think to call that out too?