F@H - Throwing In The Towel On Desktop Folding
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Here's the current setup as it is today. I have added one more box since this piccy, another Antec 900 Q6600.
Left --> to Right:
-- Bookshelf E6600
-- Antec 900 Q6600
-- Antec 900 X6800
-- Antec 900 Q6600
-- Bookshelf E6600
I'm not even using the XEON's at the moment. Suppose I should do really.
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Not likely, allthough, I have A Multi-Boinic Account (or whatever they are called these days) as well as an original SETI account, but can't for the life of me remember the account information and how all that works.Dont suppose I can tempt a couple of those cores over to the Seti project can I???
Cue Hangdog look and cheeky grin
Think I'm on the folding mission for a while.
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Here's the current setup as it is today. I have added one more box since this piccy, another Antec 900 Q6600.
Left --> to Right:
-- Bookshelf E6600
-- Antec 900 Q6600
-- Antec 900 X6800
-- Antec 900 Q6600
-- Bookshelf E6600
I'm not even using the XEON's at the moment. Suppose I should do really.
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does the subwoofer on your z5500's interfere with the pc on the right? mine came with a huge bright yellow note on it saying DANGER keep at least 3 feet away from other electrical components, or something along the lines of that
Bigstan, i love your barenekkid crunchers.. reminds me of the early days when all my pcs were less than £50 (not inc HD) and largely built from free, salvaged, or cheap used parts. One of my many mottos is "You never need a broken CD case till you've thrown them all away". I think we should start a thread perhaps in CC about.. unusual pc parts.. like.. teethbreesh, jagermeister tubes, coat hangers etc.. I once cable tied a motherboard into a case with half a copy of micromart between the board and the chassis.. lol
On topic, to the OP, you lucky, lucky git just for having the kind of hardware you have never mind those blade servers
On topic, to the OP, you lucky, lucky git just for having the kind of hardware you have never mind those blade servers
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I was sent an e-mail from an old friend in the UK that will "Give Me", yep for Free, no dosh, not one pence, nadda !!! an Enterprise Blade Server Backplane fully populated with redundant PSU's & NIC Control Boards (from a Teir-1 Server MFG) if I buy 2 or more Blades to go in it. When the rack is fully populated, it will house 8 Full Height Dual Quad Blades = 64 Cores(Hello 5400 Series Processing Power) all in a neat and tidy package. Best part is, my IT director has agreed (After a bit of Arm Twisting, as he still owes me a Global CRM Implementation) to let me use one of our data centers to house the thing in. No More Power Costs, Blazing Fast - Redundant INET (100mb+), KVM-IP access, built in Web-Server for Ganglia Monitoring and the Best part, NO NOISE or HEAT problems !!!! etc etc etc
So, without further delay, I will be planning to shift my farm from Desktop Flding to Enterprise Blade Servers. ~ ETC end of FEB-08
Any news on when this Folding Monster will come online?
ms9cw
Well, things haven't gone as fast as it was laid out / commited, however, I am in the process of re-imaging all my nodes with Ubuntu 8.04 64-Bit Server Installs in preparation for sale. 2x of the E6600's are complete. Will be doing the 3x Quads this week then the X6800.
Not sure what sort of performance / operational data will be needed to support the sale, but the numbers speak for themselves really.
So the Fire-Sale will be in the not to distant future, not to mention all the excess ATI & Nvidia Graphics cards, 4 or 5 I think, have to do a full Inventory.
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