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

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

I have both the Intel versions of this chassis , and a few of the systems that are equivalent to the 3-node system boards.

1. The Intel chassis boards take between 4-5A of 110V for 4x of the nodes, with all drive bays populated with 7200rpm SATA drives and the CPUs mostly at rest but doing stuff , that is, typical Linux load, not heavy CPU computation or whatnot (each board 2x L5520 and 48GB RAM).

2. The AMD-equivalent systems use only slightly more than 1A with 4 drives and 32GB, so, I would estimate about 1A per node.

3. The 1100W power supplies are designed to handle whatever kind of node/cpu combination, so, they made them larger due to the X series CPUs that could go in them, like the X5560.

4. the 1100W power supplies are supposed to be 94% efficiency.

Cheers

Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 7, 2014 11:06:17 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [geeks] Cluster in a box? Interesting item on offer at eBay

Desk side is a euphemism for down the hall, in a server rack. I am not foolish
enough to mean desk side literally. ;^)

The actual power consumption is rated at about 285 watts/blade, and the
ability to spin the blades up or down as needed/desired I think it should be
OK.

It is my hope to consolidate down several white box 'servers' into this one
chassis for non-production home lab use...

Once I move to Dallas I don't know what I'll do - the whole 'no basement'
thing is gonna be a problem... I am thinking rack & desk in the garage, but it
can get quite toasty in TX in the summer... Maybe I need to look into 'warm'
data center operation?

Lionel

> On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:47 PM, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
wrote:
>
> I'll be interested to see what you think of running it "deskside" at home
> is like.
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