Clustering the Mac Mini

[ScottW]

So, has anyone done this yet? Stack up three of these, would you have more power than a iMac G5?

 

[Pengu]

while this is a "cute" idea, i think it's kinda silly for the work that actually requires clustering..

 

[Quicksilver]

Though the idea of having a tripple processor G5 Mac looks good for less than $1500.

 

[hulkaros]

According to Apple you must NOT stack the Mac mini as is!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300577

Take care!

 

[fryke]

You could, of course, create a rack for a lot of minis that gives each one enough air. The computing power would still be quite great, since 'real' servers and/or cluster node need more volume per processor. I wonder if this could make a small man's supercomputer. Put ten or twenty Mac minis in some racks with good airflow, connect them through FireWire/TCP-IP (400 Mbps FW is better than 100 Mbps Ethernet) and use Xgrid or something.

 

[diablojota]

Or, just rip the insides out of a mini and cram them all into a rack server. Do some fun modification, and you've got yourself a nice, rackable 3 processor cluster.

 

[whitesaint]

Those technical documents said you can use the mac mini on its side? That would look very cool...

 

[Pengu]

Though the idea of having a tripple processor G5 Mac looks good for less than $1500

which part of this says g5??

Mac mini houses a 1.25 or 1.42GHz G4 processor

 

[Ceroc Addict]

According to Apple you must NOT stack the Mac mini as is!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300577

Take care!

Only seems to apply if you're using wireless.

Kap

 

[Quicksilver]

which part of this says g5??

doh! oh yeah, i forgot.