[ale] server troubles (again)

[Rich Faulkner]

I remember back when my dream machine included dual 5-1/4" floppies and
a dual 10MB HDDs!  Big thinking for 1987.........the rest of the spec
has been lost in layers of dust in time....

I'm holding out for my quantum computer...forget the flying cars....RinL


On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:23 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 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.
> :-)
> 
> 
> On Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> 
>         On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>         > 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.
>         >
>         
>         Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a
>         libvirt box with a
>         few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.
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