[Beowulf] Sell a U41 rack w/ computers and switches

[Douglas Eadline]

> Hello everyone, I helped a friend get his cluster up and running and but
> when he found out how much it would cost for electricity and maintenance
> he
> became fond of the idea of just selling the thing.
>
> Its a U41 amax rack with 14 blades with 4 1.6ghz processors, 4gb ram,
> 250gb
> harddisks each.   Two heavy duty UPSs, Three switches, everything is
> gigabit, and controlled by bladelike monitor/keyboard/mouse.  Basically it
> is good to go.
>
> I have written software which pxe boots an operating system on all nodes
> except for the first, making maintenance way easy for anyone who knows
> what
> they are doing.(my website has more details)
>
> I would put this guy on ebay, but considering we needed a forklift to move
> it in the first place it be great to find someone in the San Francisco bay
> area to avoid a shipping nightmare.
>

Please do not take this the wrong way, but how can someone buy
an expensive piece of IT hardware and not have an understanding
of the power requirements/cost?

This intrigues me. As someone who reads and writes quite a
bit about HPC I assumed the power and cooling message was well
understood. If it is not, maybe there is more to write about!

--
Doug


> Thanks,
>
> - Karlan Thomas Mitchell
> - http://3dstoneage.com
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit
> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
>


--
Doug