Thanks Christian.
I've done a bit of looking on the Apple site, and particularly at their Xserve machine.
Dual Processor, 222GB of 10,000 rpm hard drive(just over 1 TB of 7,200 rpm), Gigabit ethernet (x2) and options for 2 Fibre Channel Pci-x cards.
Oh, and ram up to 16GB.
Apple seems to say on their website that plugging one of these into a Mac G5 will happen, with no extra fuss. Given the obvious need for wiring (Gigabit and Fibre Channel?), and file hierarchy (again Apple says this is standard), is this a viable option? I also hear what you say about Mir being more likely to perform best on a dedicated machine, and it's possible to have a server for samples at the processor and ram specs above, and then add another server in 'Cluster mode' that operates as a speed machine, based on power at the sacrifice of some hard drive space and the optical drive. Only thing is, Mir is going PC first, and i wonder if a PC instead of cluster server will actually be able to keep up with the rest of the setup.
Thanks again, i just learnt something,
Regards,
Alex.
p.s. This would be a strictly Music composition only set up, so no extra programs would be installed. Barebones.
I've done a bit of looking on the Apple site, and particularly at their Xserve machine.
Dual Processor, 222GB of 10,000 rpm hard drive(just over 1 TB of 7,200 rpm), Gigabit ethernet (x2) and options for 2 Fibre Channel Pci-x cards.
Oh, and ram up to 16GB.
Apple seems to say on their website that plugging one of these into a Mac G5 will happen, with no extra fuss. Given the obvious need for wiring (Gigabit and Fibre Channel?), and file hierarchy (again Apple says this is standard), is this a viable option? I also hear what you say about Mir being more likely to perform best on a dedicated machine, and it's possible to have a server for samples at the processor and ram specs above, and then add another server in 'Cluster mode' that operates as a speed machine, based on power at the sacrifice of some hard drive space and the optical drive. Only thing is, Mir is going PC first, and i wonder if a PC instead of cluster server will actually be able to keep up with the rest of the setup.
Thanks again, i just learnt something,
Regards,
Alex.
p.s. This would be a strictly Music composition only set up, so no extra programs would be installed. Barebones.