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Confusis's folding rigs plans

Discussion in 'bit-tech Folding Team' started by confusis, 11 Mar 2010.

  1. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    Hmm I might be able to help more this year.. might be sourcing a few blades, need a rack and power supply for them, and the know-how to set them up. All i want to do is fold with them!

    Assuming I win the auctions I will have:
    2x HP BL20P Blade Server 2 X Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz G3 2gb ram
    2x HP BL25P Blade Server 2 X AMD Opteron 2218 2.6 GHz 2gb ram
    3x HP BL25P Blade Server 2 X AMD Opteron 252 2.6 GHz 2gb ram
    HP BL20P Blade Server 2 X Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz G2 2gb ram
    HP BL25P Blade Server 2 X AMD Opteron 285 2.6 GHz 4gb ram

    Also need to source HDD's? Currently the bids are around NZ$2 each.. hopefully nobody notices these auctions!
     
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  2. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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    Thats some major processing power there :)
     
  3. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    even if i only get half of them it's a decent setup :D
     
  4. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    What OS will the blades be running?

    You'll get the best out of them by running the bigadv SMP client natively in Linux on anything that has 8 or more physical cores.
     
  5. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    You'll need a P class enclosure, at least 1x 2.5" sas drive for each, 6-8 psu's & the switch module.

    Not a cheap purchase (I know I've got 3 enclosures full of blades I look after)
     
  6. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    Was planning on some linux distro, not sure which yet. We'll see if the bids win. I also have a dual xenon E-atx board on it's way soon! (now to find a couple of skt 603 xenon's :/)
     
  7. Unicorn

    Unicorn Uniform November India

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    Xeon =/= Xenon

    I hope you win the auctions for those mate, looks like a lot of nice kit :)
     
  8. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    i meant xeons! Was half awake when I posted that after being up with the kids all night...

    anyone have a couple socket 603 xeons lying around?
    Going to install F@H on my Project Think: (Intel S875WP-1 Server Board, , Pentium4 3.0ghz HT, 1792mb Ram) later tonight I think..
     
  9. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    I have a drawer full of old Xeons and Opterons - what bus speed etc were you looking for?
     
  10. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    Now you tell me.
     
  11. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    #

    Sorry mate - I thought you knew I was the official historian of old workstation and server CPUs and motherboards.

    Anything you fancy/need?
     
  12. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    I'll just see what cpu's my server boards take & get back to you.

    ION - all machines back up for the day, might be able to keep them running for most of the day next week as well.
     
  13. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    The board is a Gigabyte GA-8IPXDR so socket 603 only :/
    Supports "Dual Intel® Xeon™ Processors with 512KB L2 Cache (Socket 603/400MHz FSB/2.4GHz+) "

    If you have a couple that suit I'm happy to paypal you for them! (would be cool if you had the heatsink assemblies for them too!)
     
  14. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    Okay - I'll have a look in my desk on Monday.

    Re payment, I shouldn't really accept anything as they're old engineering samples, but if you're ok to pay for the postage I'll happily donate them to a member of the folding team.
     
  15. Keith_Whi

    Keith_Whi What's a Dremel?

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    Hoping that my desk drawer looks like that on Monday morning. :D
     
  16. MaverickWill

    MaverickWill Dirty CPC Mackem

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    Don't suppose you've got any of those W5580s hiding in there, have you, James? ;)
     
  17. Lizard

    Lizard @ Scan R&D

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    Not in my drawer, no - they are all plugged in and folding away happily :)
     
  18. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    Cool. I won the auction for the Gigabyte Dual Xeon board ... NZ$10.50! (£4.86 or €5.35!)
    Now to find some registered DDR sticks and a distro of linux I can work with! (i'm a *nix n00b)


    I do appreciate it, Lizard! Happy to pay shipping!
     
  19. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    Lost auctions of 2 of the 8 blades.. oh well :)
     
  20. Unicorn

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