Rig of the Day: Cube server farm

Today's rig demonstrates a great usage of discontinued Cubes. Flickr user and TUAW reader charlieabbotuk tell us that these Cubes are a Filemaker Pro server farm where he works. He writes:

"...We are constantly looking to recycle our older Mac kit and couldn't bear to throw our cubes away so we set up this Cube farm to run our FileMaker systems. We have 4 FileMaker servers with a FileMaker Unlimited databases that are web enabled." So they're not exactly 1U, but they work.

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Today's rig demonstrates a great usage of discontinued Cubes. Flickr user and TUAW reader charlieabbotuk tell us that these Cubes are a...

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jason

Nevermind, I found this helpful page on Apple's website.

http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/xgrid.html

Now all i need are some spare computers... *eye's the 3 boxed g5's*

February 14 2006 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jason

Is there a way to actually cluster macs? Or are they running a version of linux? I work at a place where we have old macs sitting around doing nothing. And we could use a better FM server!

February 14 2006 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

Hahaha cool. I was working on something like this way back when. Instead, I removed the plastic exteriors, put them on their side, added a PC case fan in front and one in the back to force airflow, and hooked a few of them up to a fan and temperature control unit. That way you could stack them much tighter - in the rack in the photo above, you could fit nearly twice as many Cubes in there when modded like this. =)

February 14 2006 at 2:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ralph

Can't find it online, but I remember one of the TREK series used a Cube farm to drive the bridge screens.

February 14 2006 at 1:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply