<p>Heh, heh. I'm holding out for a quad socket magney-cours box with 12 cores each chip and 512GB RAM and x8 3TB drives.<br>
:-)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM, "JD" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1<br>
>> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.<br>
><br>
> I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers on the table<br>
> as well.<br>
><br>
> Downsides:<br>
> MCA SCSI Drives<br>
> 2U Form Factor<br>
> Needs rails<br>
> Noisy (belongs in a rack)<br>
><br>
> Upside:<br>
> Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs<br>
> Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed<br>
> 4096MB Ram<br>
> Dual Power Supplies<br>
><br>
> Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.<br>
><br>
> I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number crunching. Between<br>
> the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my office and one<br>
> is already buried in a rack.<br>
><br>
> We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.<br>
><br>
<br>
Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a libvirt box with a<br>
few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.<br>
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