scottherbert wrote:In looking for motherboards capable of handling larger amounts of ram, I found very few in the normal 'desktop' type, but when I started looking at 'server' type motherboards, I found that 128 gb was small! Many of them were capable of handling 512 gb to 1 Tb of ram. My question now is, what does a server do, and can it be used as a Hauptwerk computer by itself?
Hello Scott,
This is Wikipedia's article on servers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
Their hardware is primarily designed and optimised for intensive use by many people ('clients') simultaneously, and for maximum reliability and up-time, usually used in racks in computer server rooms in companies' I.T. departments.
Provided that they meet Hauptwerk's prerequisites
https://www.hauptwerk.com/learn-more/requirements/
https://www.hauptwerk.com/clientuploads/documentation/PDF/HauptwerkPrerequisites.pdf
https://www.hauptwerk.com/clientuploads/documentation/PDF/HauptwerkBackgroundTechnicalInfoOnComputerHardware.pdf
... they can in principle be used for Hauptwerk, although as others have mentioned they might be noisy and might (or might not) perform especially well for running a single instance of a CPU-intensive real-time audio application such as Hauptwerk. They may tend to be optimised for running many simultaneous instances of applications reasonably fast, rather than a single instance extremely fast.