[geeks] Cluster in a box? Interesting item on offer at eBay

[Lionel Peterson]

No problem, always interesting to hear folks 'war stories'...

Here on Geeks (Bill correct me if I 'm wrong) the definition of 'topic' is
quite broad, esp as compared with, say, the rescue mail list which focuses on
rescuing older hardware...

Lionel

> On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:30 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2014, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>> Appreciated.
>>
>> I hold out hope since these are Dell DCS servers and based on a 'standard'
>> Tyan MB (model number eludes me at the moment).
>>
>> For the price & features, I think it looks good for a desk side 'cluster',
and
>> the ability to hook directly to each blade off a retail ($75) KVM
mitigates
>> any concerns I might have from your ipmi horror stories.
>>
>> We'll see, I'll share experiences here as appropriate.
>
> On the follow-up eMails I see people are talking about having it at home,
> in which case you're really running a different set of expectations. When
> the daffy thing is ~2500 miles away and you lose the ability to reset it
> or KVM into it, that's a real pain in the butt. (And Smart Hands in 60 Hud
> is expensive)
>
> In your basement, well, it's an inconvenience but a very different matter.
>
> So, again, I'm not sure how relevant my response was after all :)
>
> Good luck!
>
> - JP
>
>>> On Feb 7, 2014, at 11:24 AM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyways. I appreciate I'm slightly OT, since the unit below is a C6100, a
>>> somewhat older system and has a very different blade mainboard... but
>>> given our rather horrid experiences with them I thought I'd at least
>>> mention it.
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