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August 03, 2008
Bwa
www.biscade.com/office/
(Office FAQ on the web site link above.)
I write distributed system software and typically have 3 or 4 debuggers going concurrently.
From left to right: 2x24" (iMac w/ external 24"), and then there are 6 monitors on a single Mac Pro w/ 8x2.8 cores, 12 GB of RAM.
There's some other machines in my office, but just a few 17" LCDs for them. I try to use serial consoles as much as possible.
Altogether there's about 24 CPU cores, 54 GB of RAM, and 10 TB of disk space.
mac, mac pro, multi monitor, crazy, home office, imac
9 comments so far …
sick! (:
Awesome! Is it really mandatory? Couldn't you settle for less?
Just like it's not 'mandatory' to have a printer (could just go to Kinko's every time a print out is needed), no, 11 monitors are not mandatory. For a long time, I just used 4. However, huge screen real estate makes tracking down propagating crashes of my software much easier. A few debuggers, some tcpdumps, scrolling log files, source code, documentation are all competing for attention, not to mention any UI for the product at hand.
Then there's the fact I am usually working on multiple projects at the same time. Virtual desktops might help take care of that, but I generally find them distracting and not a good solution for what I do.
54GB of ram, WOW!
how much did the whole setup cost?
Rather than answer the cost question directly, I'll direct you to a previous response to this question:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwa…
wow, cool workspace. I once dreamed of a tri-monitor but I only have dual monitors set up now...
Thanks! :-)
wow, it's so cool .. but keybord! it's strange.. what is name of the keybord? i think it's not easy to write on it :)
are you the matrix?