post your Linux Rig's specs. pointlessly powerful or amusingly weak ?
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It's a bit of a beast, but this is for genome assembly and highly-parallel bioinformatics applications, so I can easily max the processors. In fact I already have
If you're doing NGS assembly you may need more memory, i.e. cortex/velvet.
ArchLinux with XFCE
-Intel E2140 @ 2.6GHz (from memory, aren't many Linux tools that tell you actual speed)
Try this:
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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHzCurrently I have Ubuntu 11.10 on my Linux pc - it's an old Packard Bell I think that used to have Vista on it.
- Replaced the original case with an original Antec Sonata
- Has a new psu (Earthwatts 430W I think)
- Memory - 4gb ddr2 (not sure on speed)
- Generic unbranded motherboard (possibly Asus)
- Q8200 which runs @ 2.4Ghz & 2Ghz (no other lower power saving frequencies as far as I can tell)
- Sapphire ATI HD5670 Ultimate 1GB GDDR5 (fanless)
I use it for some gaming though the ati card performed better in Vista. Other than that performs much better with Linux on it
Did have Gentoo on my main pc but ran into several issues, not to mention I needed Word & Powerpoint for specific projects that OpenOffice didn't quite match (I really tried!!). At some point I'm going to build a super fast super efficient super low power Linux box as a general desktop & gaming machine which will also serve media files
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I have mine running in a VM on a HP Microserver
AMD Athlon II NEO N36L 1.3 GHz
8GB RAM (2gb assigned to VM)
1 x100gb Virtual disk size
You guys will hate me though as I only use it as a time machine capsule
Out of interest - what flavour are you running to create the time capsule?
we don't hate you
it's a slight cheat in a way because it's a VM I suppose
I'm surprised that no one as come up with a mini system/really ancient laptop running Tiny Core
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I've scaled back on my home network and just run the minimum....
HTPC/NAS/Terminal Server/Windows 2008 Virtualised
Ubuntu 10.10 32bit stock PAE kernel // 8 gig // SU2300 // 5 TB
Old pentiums pxe boot as thin clients
BG45 Laptop
Pingeee 11.04 // 3 gig // T2390 upgraded to T8100 // 60gig Agility 3
This thing flies and is as smooth as a mac. Compositing works great and it's the machine I 'prefer' to use
Bart2 - Backup Server
Backup server was running an installation RedHat 6.2 (zoot) carried from another machine
but I got tired of compiling stuff and the gcc version was so old that recent software failed too much. Now running Ubuntu LTS
1.5 gig // Athlon XP2500+ // 3 TB
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The big machines run Windows I'm afraid
HTPC/NAS/Terminal Server/Windows 2008 Virtualised
Ubuntu 10.10 32bit stock PAE kernel // 8 gig // SU2300 // 5 TB
Old pentiums pxe boot as thin clients
BG45 Laptop
Pingeee 11.04 // 3 gig // T2390 upgraded to T8100 // 60gig Agility 3
This thing flies and is as smooth as a mac. Compositing works great and it's the machine I 'prefer' to use
Bart2 - Backup Server
Backup server was running an installation RedHat 6.2 (zoot) carried from another machine
but I got tired of compiling stuff and the gcc version was so old that recent software failed too much. Now running Ubuntu LTS1.5 gig // Athlon XP2500+ // 3 TB
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The big machines run Windows I'm afraid
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The majority of my storage is handled centrally, so I can't really impact thatYou didn't fancy the 24 SSD raid 60 array then.
How do you cool that monster? Is it noisy?
It's cooled by a lot of fans - it's in a supermicro server case. They're very loud and due to not currently having power a convenient place, the back of the case points almost directly at my face.
This is indeed for HTS data analysis, but with a much more specific purpose then a generic assembly with velvet or the like. I'm probably going to have to write a custom program to do what I want and at the moment, I'm not sure about memory - I probably won't actually need most of what I have. If I do go down that line, then extra RAM is a definite possibility, though.
I currently have ubuntu 11.10 running on this machine, which is a core2duo, 2gb ram with a couple of hd's.
I really love Crunchbang though, it's running on my old Fujitsu laptop, 1.5 celeron, 512mb ram, up and running with no programs open it's using 76mb ram
I really love Crunchbang though, it's running on my old Fujitsu laptop, 1.5 celeron, 512mb ram, up and running with no programs open it's using 76mb ram
Out of interest - what flavour are you running to create the time capsule?
we don't hate you
it's a slight cheat in a way because it's a VM I suppose
Ubuntu 11.10 with netatalk, seems to work quite well.
2 machines for a client;
Primary;
Intel E3-1230
Supermicro X9SCM-F (includes IPMI 2.0)
16GB ECC Ram
2x 10K 1TB SAS drives (raid 1)
2x 15K 146GB SAS drives (raid 1)
IBM M1015 SAS card
1U Supermicro short rack mount case
Secondary;
As primary but
8GB ECC ram
2x Seagate 1TB SATA hdd (raid 1).
2x Seagate 500GB SATA hdd (raid 1).
RB
Primary;
Intel E3-1230
Supermicro X9SCM-F (includes IPMI 2.0)
16GB ECC Ram
2x 10K 1TB SAS drives (raid 1)
2x 15K 146GB SAS drives (raid 1)
IBM M1015 SAS card
1U Supermicro short rack mount case
Secondary;
As primary but
8GB ECC ram
2x Seagate 1TB SATA hdd (raid 1).
2x Seagate 500GB SATA hdd (raid 1).
RB
I'm surprised your company is still in business.
Who the hell uses 15k drives in a workstation as well? And Unity...ugh, from the limited amount of time I have spent with that it looks horrible?
Sorry..I should add to the thread...I use Fedora 15 on a 5 year old POS at work that was underpowered when it was new. At home I have a 2.5 year old Atom based HTPC running Xubuntu (that is still fine for fileserver / XBMC 720P / download box duties!) and a Microserver running Debian 6 / Xen. All of them fairly underpowered.
Luckily none of them are my machine of choice!
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