[ale] server troubles (again)

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1
> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.

I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers on the table
as well.

Downsides:
MCA SCSI Drives
2U Form Factor
Needs rails
Noisy (belongs in a rack)

Upside:
Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs
Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed
4096MB Ram
Dual Power Supplies

Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.

I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number crunching.  Between
the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my office and one
is already buried in a rack.

We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.


Regards.
Mike

> -Erik-
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 10:37 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> There's a guy in Peachtree City that has a bunch of 1U HP servers
> >> available for $75 each (this is the guy from whom I aquired my racks a
> >> month or so ago).  I can see if he still has any available or get the
> >> appropriate people in touch with him, if it would help?
> >
> > Hold on.  Jim and I have already been in discussions.  We have a machine
> > in mind and it's even already been preloaded with CentOS 6.1.  He's
> > checking on what it's going to take to get it racked and set up next to
> > the old server so we can do a smooth cutover with a minimum of downtime.
> > If we use the machine we're discussing, it'll will be a major upgrade
> > for our server (on the order of using an elephant gun to kill a mouse).
> >
> >> I don't have any specs.
> >
> > We're just keeping everyone apprised of what's going on, and that we're
> > aware of the problems that seem to be escalating and we're working on a
> > solution.  The offers are much appreciated but, hopefully, won't be
> > needed just yet.
> >
> >> -derek
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mike
> >
> >> Randy Ramsdell <rramsdell at activedg.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Overheating does things like this.
> >> >
> >> > On 12/14/11 22:28, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     The ALE server is failing. It has simply died more times than I care to
> >> >     recall and leaves behind a tell-tale trail of
> >> >
> >> >     nothing
> >> >
> >> >     silence
> >> >
> >> >     just a log entry when it is rebooted.
> >> >
> >> >     Don't get me wrong. The current machine was also a donated one as well as
> >> >     the rack space and bandwidth. And I am, as I'm sure all of us are, very,
> >> >     very grateful.
> >> >
> >> >     However, this poor system is needing to be put out to pasture.
> >> >
> >> >     I am looking at a donated machine as a replacement system on offer now. As
> >> >     soon as arrangements can be made to get it racked, and all data duplicated
> >> >     over, things will be better.
> >> >
> >> >     Thanks for the ALE patience on this.
> >> >
> >> >     Hopefully the server will stay up long enough to get _this_ notice out...
> >> >
> >> >     :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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