nifty new toy. ubergeek points?

[CyberGoth]

grins, and now for something mildly geeky.

just put a new heavy server into service.

american super micro quad XEON-4 with hyperthreading. 4gigs of ram. primary master: 7200rpm 120gig disk with 8megs cache [mirrored in software to identical secondary master]

data drive:

4*maxtor 7200rpm 250gig disks/8megs cache each, plus 256megs ram on a promise RAID5 controller.

dual gigabit ethernet running redundantly.
8 FAST USB2 ports. 4gigabits of external IO 4 3com 3C905 100mbit ethernet cards.

Rackmount 6u chassis with dual hot plug 750 watt power supplies and heavy cooling.

runs RedHat linux 9, VMware, with Win2kProSP2. and OS/2 Warp V4 under VMWare.

note, VMware is an insanely useful tool once you figure out how to use it...

should run doom well.

grins evilly
this allows me to do complex systems modelling while saving a couple hundred cubic feet of volume and a few kilowatt hours.

 

[eyeofthedragon]

man I thought 1 gig of ram was a lot - I guess im only mildly geeky - sounds like an impressive machine though

 

[CyberGoth]

Post#666 !!

no, but it does help me pay for my lifestyle and it gives me good tools to do my work with. I have been very busy lately.

having alot of fun too.

and some problems are best solved by throwing vast amounts of processor and ram and io and thought into.

grins.

I've spent the last 20 years designing and building industrial servers. I am astounded at how stupidly cheap this stuff is getting. or conversely how stupidly powerful this stuff is getting per dollar spent. [yes, I'm an OLD TECHNOFART hehe] more to the point you can get all of it off the shelf on college street. this is a very good thing.

I'm hoping one day to get a CRAY nameplate and put it in a little display case sorta thing. its a nostalgia kinda thing for me.

the four machines this thing replaces, [all big fugly SMP boxes] all get redeployed as members of a cluster.

 

[CyberGoth]

ooohweee, I havent heard CRAY in a few years now....whatever happened to them?

Seymour sold Cray to Silicon Graphics Ltd. who in turn broke cray into cray systems and cray research. from there it gets a little fuzzy.

they've been playing with various forms of linux based clustering on commercial off the shelf equipment lately.

Rest In Peace Mr. Cray.

 

[mmm61318]

grins, and now for something mildly geeky.

just put a new heavy server into service.

american super micro quad XEON-4 with hyperthreading. 4gigs of ram. primary master: 7200rpm 120gig disk with 8megs cache [mirrored in software to identical secondary master]

data drive:

4*maxtor 7200rpm 250gig disks/8megs cache each, plus 256megs ram on a promise RAID5 controller.

dual gigabit ethernet running redundantly.
8 FAST USB2 ports. 4gigabits of external IO 4 3com 3C905 100mbit ethernet cards.

Rackmount 6u chassis with dual hot plug 750 watt power supplies and heavy cooling.

runs RedHat linux 9, VMware, with Win2kProSP2. and OS/2 Warp V4 under VMWare.

note, VMware is an insanely useful tool once you figure out how to use it...

should run doom well.

grins evilly
this allows me to do complex systems modelling while saving a couple hundred cubic feet of volume and a few kilowatt hours.

HUH??????????

 

[Cardinal Fang]

I actually think he had a woody typing those specs!

Sorry CyberGoth ....

 

[CyberGoth]

I build to functionalities set forth by operational requirements which are a subset of a mandate. [ie: signed contract] and if someone is paying me enough, I'll build just about anything.

the hard part is getting me to agree in the first place.

I tend to take my work seriously, besides, its fun!!!

 

[Cardinal Fang]

I build to functionalities set forth by operational requirements which are a subset of a mandate. [ie: signed contract] and if someone is paying me enough, I'll build just about anything.

Uh.....excuse me please!

I've just gone to the sticky entitled "Short forms" and cannot find any of these words or corresponding abbreviations.

 

[CyberGoth]

sorry dude.

 

[CyberGoth]

hmmmmm DATY.......

 

[goose]

Found CyberGoth a cray

Goth,

Found a Cray for you. A tri-cabinet J932se. woo hoo!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3030484477&category=1484

Looks like a decent deal for 14K, if you have enough power in your living room

More photos of the unit here:
http://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/cray_forsale3/

Mayhaps we could all chip in and buy it to power TERB. heh heh heh

PS, when my office upgraded our modelling application, I managed to take home the old SGI Challenge S (loaded). Unfortunately, I don't have a 220 drop for the power, so now I have a $250,000 end-table. Well, $250K new. I could probably only get a couple grand for it on ebay now, but its a hell of a conversation piece.

My propeller-head friends drool. One day I'll likely get a 220 service dropped, then power it up.


Goose

 

[CyberGoth]

have a good electrician take a look at that big weird plug behind the stove, you dont really need to cook now do you?

I do believe its 220volt. [or thereabouts]

 

[bishop]

yeah man all u need is a voltage transformer, I am sure they have commercially availble ones off the shelf. I know for certain there a gadets that left american appliances(120V) work in asia (220 or 240 volts).