160 Mac Minis, One Rack

Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by patangay on Sunday December 09, 2012 @06:13PM (#4896588)

We did something similar at Facebook for iOS and OSX automated testing and a few of them doing iOS app builds.

Here is a post that Jay Parikh (VP of Infrastructure) made about it. http://tinyurl.com/cnvss4v

Our density isn't as high (we have 64 minis) because of cooling and cabling that we designed according to our datacenter cooling standards.

@jurre - If you want to chat about our design, message me and I can put you in touch with our hardware designer.

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Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by jurre on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:57AM (#4898316)

I just copied that reply from the person that built the actual rack, but I would love to hear more about your iOS testing infrastructure/process!

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Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by jevinskie on Monday December 10, 2012 @09:13AM (#4899036)

Me too! Before we used fruitstrap[0] we used DeviceAnywhere. This was a 2U rack unit that contained a franken-iPhone. The hardware buttons were soldered up to GPIO on the DeviceAnywhere.

[0]: https://github.com/ghughes/fruitstrap

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Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by i386 on Monday December 10, 2012 @02:31AM (#4897947)

Would love to hear more about your automated testing!

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Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by patangay on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:37AM (#4899839)

For those who showed interest in learning more about our infrastructure/automated testing process, if you could drop me an email? gp at our corp domain fb.com.

I don't work on the team anymore, but I can probably start off a thread with the right people involved from Facebook's side.

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Re:160 Mac Minis, One Rack by simbimbo on Sunday December 09, 2012 @09:32PM (#4897161)

I would like to chat about it.

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