Folding rig suggestions please?

[pompeyrodney]

Hi All
I have managed to get my hands on an old Dell Poweredge 1900 server and was wondering what way I could utilise it to get the most folding points possible. The spec is as follows:

2 x Xeon 5150 @ 1.6GHZ
16Gb DDR2 PC5300 ECC RAM
2 x 320 GB SAS drives
2 x 250GB scsi hard drives

I am intending on using it as a base for learning VM Ware ESXi 5.1 but I would like to combine that with perhaps making the VM's folding clients as well. Should I use Linux VM's or Windows as I would rather run Linux as I believe that to be the best OS. Meanwhile I shall look at what others are doing in the server folding world for some inspiration. As always thanks for any help provided.

[kirk46]

ive just checked your Xeons out and it says on intels website they run at 2.66GHz

Ubuntu will net you the most points at folding...

check out THIS Thread on the [H]ard forum

its what i used to set up my Duel Xeon rig

[pompeyrodney]

Originally Posted by kirk46

ive just checked your Xeons out and it says on intels website they run at 2.66GHz

Ubuntu will net you the most points at folding...

check out THIS Thread on the [H]ard forum

its what i used to set up my Duel Xeon rig

Hi Kirk
Guess I must have the model number wrong, should be the 5110 I reckon I already use Ubuntu on a Phenom X2 555 running the smp client. Will check out the links and thanks for the help.

[mikemaher205]

I like instruction 3;

Go get a sandwich.

OK then.