How many computers?

[Peeping Tom]

I have 8 machines running in my place, for a total of 12 GHz. My main box is a pure SCSI rig and the rest are headless crunchers. The Beast resides behind a firewall which serves up the bandwidth.

Visitors are often astonished about this array. The computer room is quite hot and noisy - it has been compared to three or four hair dryers. I do not put any money into heating unless it is very cold but the AC takes a beating during summer.

So, what do terbites run? Must be home machines.

 

[Sinistar]

Sounds like a sweet setup Tom. What type of firewall have you got up? Hardware or software? I've got a Debian Linux box running as my gateway.

 

[Peeping Tom]

I have a dlink hardware firewall with a piggyback hub serving the band. OS of choice is w2k pro - I never dabbled with any of the nixes mainly because I don't think it will ever be seen at the workplace. W2k works out very nice because I have a copy with the nvidia unified driver and use all nvidia based cards for vid.

If I could only boot without a vid card ...

 

[PokerRoo]

Right now I have 2.

The desktop is a AMD Based System 1.33GHz T-Bird 512MB ram, 240GB HD Space, the regular stuff burner, etc

My other new toy is a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop
P4 2.0GHz
768MB DDR Ram
60GB Hard Drive
CDRW/DVD ROM
15" Ultra Sharp UXGA Screen

 

[Sinistar]

I have a dlink hardware firewall with a piggyback hub serving the band. OS of choice is w2k pro - I never dabbled with any of the nixes mainly because I don't think it will ever be seen at the workplace. W2k works out very nice because I have a copy with the nvidia unified driver and use all nvidia based cards for vid.

If I could only boot without a vid card ...

Not in the workplace? Linux controls about 35-40% of the web server market (Apache actually controls around 53% of the market but it also runs on Windows) Works out well for me since I design web apps. It's more technical but runs much leaner on resources than Windows. I've never had a problem with Linux Nvidia drivers either. About the only drawback is the lack of games.

 

[Peeping Tom]

Should have stated this

The CPU breakdown:

cumine 750
2 morgans @ 1200, 1260
tbird @ 1333
pallie @ 1466
willie 1500
2 northies @ 2133, 2240

All machines equipped with 256 MB or more, five of them DDR. Sorage is 2 x 9 GB 10KII on a 19160 controller and the rest of the rig uses 9 GB fireballs that I picked up cheep a few years ago.

This alone has placed me in the top 200 on George's list in about a year of crunching

 

[YorkNorthGuy]

I have the following:

Dell 8100 desktop - main PC (XP pro)

Dell 7000 notebook - remote client access (Win 98 SE)

Dell 8200 notebook - travelling companion to client offices (XP pro)

Greff P1 clone desktop tower - online file backup and TV tuner card (Win 98 SE)

HP Pavillion desktop - In the kitchen when you just need to access the web (win 98 SE)

IBM AS/400 model 400 - main development platform for client apps (OS/400)

All are behind a Linksys router/switch with Bell HSE. Cat 5 cabling running 100mps. I use DNS2Go to provide a virtual domain to come back into my network though the ports that I have opened.

 

[Peeping Tom]

Yep Sinistar I'm aware that web developers favor the nixes. I'm an engineer and in that field it's stock Office on the desktop. I do some process control at times, mainly with provox.

Somewhat surprising that I haven't checked out the nixes myself - uhmm *cough* licensing ...

Not in the workplace? Linux controls about 35-40% of the web server market (Apache actually controls around 53% of the market but it also runs on Windows) Works out well for me since I design web apps. It's more technical but runs much leaner on resources than Windows. I've never had a problem with Linux Nvidia drivers either. About the only drawback is the lack of games.

 

[MuffinMuncher]

Computers

I have a white one.


On a side note, Sasha Jones is going to have multiple orgasms when she finds this thread, she's probably more knowledgable than most of my company's IT Department.

 

[LateComer]

Holy Sh*t

I'm with you MM. Am I the only one that doesn't have a clue what Peeping Tom is talking about?

 

[Peeping Tom]

Sorry for being confusing - I realize this isn't a tech board. But, point out what you want clarified and I'll describe it

I did use one reference that is highly topic intensive - but that was to find if anyone knew my other hobby.

 

[LateComer]

That's OK PT. I was just being a smart(dumb?)-ass.

 

[PokerRoo]

Re: Holy Sh*t

I'm with you MM. Am I the only one that doesn't have a clue what Peeping Tom is talking about?

Some sort of distributed computing project

seti@home
folding@home

one em at least

 

[Peeping Tom]

Right on the money PokerRoo

I'm crunching prime95 currently, although in the past I have done just about all of them. Most of my effort is going into 33M tests in the hope of finding the "big one" (and getting that sweet cash prize). Guess too much mathematics has warped me, but I can't help it since I won't leave a problem that defies solving.

The array I run is actually small time. I know fans of distributed computing who have 40 or 50 machines in their basement I'm going to back off before I get that far, hence my joining this board and trying to get the nerve to visit a sweet SP.

btw does the Roo in your handle tell me you're Aussie? I lived there for a while.

 

[PokerRoo]

Re: Right on the money PokerRoo

btw does the Roo in your handle tell me you're Aussie? I lived there for a while.

lol I find my computer room gets warm with just this pc.. I can't imagine having 40 or 50 computers in my basement lol

The name is just something that I though up one day

I live in St. Catharines Ontario.

 

[Peeping Tom]

At a hypothetical 200 watt load for a barebones machine running at 100% cpu, this friend throws about 8 kw of heat, so much that he bought the beefiest available heatpump for the home market. And he only uses it in summer ... winter he leaves a window open. Needless to say the police have this on file, as the power bill has resulted in numerous visits trying to discover the "growing farm".

 

[Sasha Jones]

I have 3!

Main system:
Dual P3, 1 GB PC 133 ram, 20 & 40GB ata 100 hard drives, Dual head gforce 4 mx video card with tv out and video in, Dual 18.1" NEC LCD's, wireless keyboard and mouse, 32X cdr-rw, 16X DVD, surround sound speakers, antec soho server case......... all components are black.

Gateway/Secondary System:

AMD 1GB, 256MB ram, asus 7100 series video card with tv out, sound card, basic speakers, wireless keyboard and mouse, 17" NEC flat CRT, 10GB ATA 100 HD, antec soho server case........... all components are black.

Laptop:

IBM thinkpad, celeron 550, 192 MB ram, 14.1" TFT active matrix LCD, 6gb hard drive, ati video card, blah blah blah.............of course it is black!


Funny thing is, I actually went into Future Shop with gift certificate in hand and I coulnd't find a thing I wanted to buy. I really don't know what to do with myself now

PS, I wish my pc's would heat my room up!

 

[PokerRoo]

. Needless to say the police have this on file, as the power bill has resulted in numerous visits trying to discover the "growing farm".

lol thats classic!

"really officer... its my computers!"

 

[PokerRoo]

Funny thing is, I actually went into Future Shop with gift certificate in hand and I coulnd't find a thing I wanted to buy.

lol I'm the oposite!

I can think of a bunch of things I'd buy at Futureshop right now!

128MB CF Card for my Digital Camera
USB Hub
Wireless access point for my laptop
...

 

[DonAngelo]

1 G4 Power Mac with Dual 1Ghz; 1.28GB RAM; 3x80GB HD; 1x 120 GB LaCie Firewire HD
1 P4 2.26 Ghz; 512 mb RAM; 60 GB HD; 1x80 GB LaCie Firewire HD
1 P4 1.8 Ghz; 512 mb RAM; 60 GB HD
1 P4 1.6 Ghz; 512 mb Ram 60 GB HD
1 G4 Powerbook; 450 Mhz; 384 mb RAM; 10 GB HD
1 IBook 700 Mhz; 768 Mb Ram; 20GB HD
1 Acer PII Notebook; 300 Mhz; 256 Mb Ram; 6 GB HD

...and all of them are crunching Seti Units