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

[Lionel Peterson]

Patrick,

Great to know - thanks for the info.

Lionel

> On Feb 7, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
>
> 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