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Pumpkinstew

Pumpkinstew

Pumpkinstew

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New cluster going in at work comprising five E6600's.... :cool:

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That's 20GB of RAM stacked up on the mobo's... :eek:
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Now the bad news. It's a secure cluster with no external connection so zero borging potential. :(
 
If you were allowed to you could always sneakernet up to eight WUs at a time per "computer". That would be a total of 40 WUs per transaction.

I don't suppose you'd be allowed to do that since it's secure though.

EDIT: Heck, if they run Linux you could do a lot more than 8 at a time. I think you could then do 32 per machine.
 
In this case secure means no internet connection, and CD drives and USB ports disabled. Only a few workstations will be connected for running modelling codes.

I could try and sneak out with one under my jacket but being housed in rackmount cases I don't like my chances.
 
Yeah, it'll be a linux distro of some kind.

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that the mobos are micro-atx and only have 2 RAM slots, although there are ten 1 GB pairs stacked up on top of them.

Can I mention a competitors name if they've screwed up? ;)
 
Nope. Competitors are against the rules, even if they've screw up royally.

If it's really for HPC, you should probably just roll your own stripped-down distro.
 
Linux is the best thing you can do to top end hardware for day-to-day running. Only thing linux is rubbish at is games but I suspect his company hasn't spent all that cash for a super secure cluster to play FEAR Combat :D

SiriusB
 
SiriusB said:
Linux is the best thing you can do to top end hardware for day-to-day running. Only thing linux is rubbish at is games but I suspect his company hasn't spent all that cash for a super secure cluster to play FEAR Combat :D

SiriusB
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I wish :(
We don't even have minesweeper.
 
minesweeper, that's so last year

chaos theory link remove

now we're talking :D

Link will be active for one minute only (it's not folding related you know ;) )
 
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