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

[Lionel Peterson]

Patrick,

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll investigate tonight.

The system can NOT take a redundant/second PS - there is an empty bay, but the
internal circuit boards have no ability to connect to a second PS.

Likewise, you can not add a fourth blade - the side power switches only
control 3 blades, and again there is no provision to power a fourth blade,
despite the empty bay.

The PS is rated for 1100W, I am not near the unit to give you a part number.

My next 'step' is to put it on a kill-a-watt, connect a 4 port USB KVM and
figure out how to access the other two blades to install their install USB
flash drives...

Then I'll run two and all three blades and note power consumption for each
config.

I don't think the blades can accommodate a PCIe card - I don 't think there is
a riser installed... I keep forgetting to look. ;^)

Lionel

> On Feb 10, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
>
> You can use Prime95, or, if you are mining any kind of Litecoin (scrypt
function) based coin, use the CPU miner - you can configure the number of
threads and it will stress both CPU and RAM.
>
> Can you tell me if 1) it will actually take a second PSU and 2) what is the
rating and part number for the PSU?
>
> Cheers
>
> Patrick
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