heh heh, yeah occasionally I find a good dumpster to dive into.
X4150's 8 cores each, 4gb memory, raid, yum, a tasty treat.
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heh heh, yeah occasionally I find a good dumpster to dive into.
X4150's 8 cores each, 4gb memory, raid, yum, a tasty treat.
Some real nice stuff you've got there mitchellds!
A few updates for today.
Firstly, the company I ordered the last parts for have continued to mess around with my order, giving excuses, and so on. So today I simply told them to cancel it.
I've now re-ordered the stuff from elsewhere, which should, provided there are no more issues, arrive by the end of this week.
But I did get another packages today!
This one came all the way from Hong Kong:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...ng_package.jpg
And this is what it contained:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...g_packages.jpg
Not sure what they are? Here is one of them in place on the motherboard:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...e_to_flash.jpg
Yup, these are my IDE to Compact Flash adaptors. Now I just need the actual Compact Flash to arrive...
Well isn't this an interesting day...
PT1-Crunchy
PT2-RealTime
Yup.. Two nodes up and running!!!!! :qgreenjumpers:
Sadly not quite everything came today - The splitters to allow me to use one PSU on two motherboards are still not here - hence why it's just the two nodes, and not all four.
But lets see how we got to this stage, shall we?
Packages that came today:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...nearly_all.jpg
Lets open the smaller package first:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...cial_boxes.jpg
And inside these:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...rucial_ram.jpg
In total there are 6 sticks of 1GB DDR2-1066 RAM. Although I can't make use of this speed with my current CPUs, it saves me having to upgrade the RAM later when I upgrade the CPUs.
So let's open the big parcel now!
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...nd_bubbles.jpg
Those PSUs are rated at 425W - More than enough to run two of those nodes.
Here is all the bits and bobs the PSUs came with:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image.../psu_stuff.jpg
Next, opening up (and popping much of) the bubble wrap, we find these:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...pact_flash.jpg
The nice 2GB Compact Flash cards (rated at x133 speed.)
Popping those and the RAM into the motherboards:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...am_inplace.jpg
So with them all wired up I could install the OS (Arch again). I have however moved them somewhere else... Here's a pic of me installing Arch:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...rm/newhome.jpg
As you can see, they are now in the bookshelf!
Here's a closer view:
http://theownerfreelibrary.org/image...ome_closer.jpg
And so there we have it. As soon as the extra cables come I'll get the other two online.
Now I am still looking for ideas for names. I decided having a simple numbering system would be a good idea, so they will all start with PTx (where X is the node number), but then each one gets a proper name as well.
So my thanks to Frederic Brillouet for the name Crunchy, vaughan for RealTime (not quite what you had in mind, but I liked it), and Danish Dynamite for the PTx idea.
As for projects, I'm liking AMDave's 10K idea, so I might go with that.
Anyhow, I'm rather happy at the moment :icon_mrgreen:
the way you have it set up now i guess it might be better to call them BCS3L1, BCS3L2 BCS3R1 and BCS3R2 for bookcase shelf 3 left# and right# or book cruncher shelf 3 left# and right# lol
Edit i don't understand why 6 sticks of ram ? i can understand 4 or 8 stick
Oops, I should have mentioned - As it was cheaper to buy the RAM in pairs that's what I did. I then replaced my pair of 512MB sticks in my main pc with the extra pair of 1GB sticks, to give me that big extra ooomph :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Danish Dynamite
How about names of Greek gods, of mythological creatures?
Well I have actually just given names to the other two nodes (although they are not online yet) spikey_richie:
PT3-Cassiopeia
PT4-Element117
So yeah, I already looked to the greeks for inspiration, as well as looking at constellations after AMDave's suggestion.
It's an interesting topic. Whilst I was sat on the beach last week I was thinking about what I'd call my servers if I were a domain admin. I started off with the names of the 4 elephapnts holding up the turtle which in turn holds up the Discworld (Terry Pratchett...) but there's only 4 of them. Then I thought about characters from HHGTTG but there's not that many names, and most of them have been used for apps. already (Trillian is a good example).
I did eventually come up with a list that gave me a good 15-20 servers, but my mind is blank as to what they were... it's in there somewhere.
P.S. Are you in the UK? Oh, and have you checked out this site before? http://www.mini-itx.com
Yes to both questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by spikey_richie
And indeed, all the names I can think of are either dull or unimaginative. (Except for Element117 which I did name myself, and I think isn't bad. (Look up the elements if you don't know about it.), and so that's why I get other people to name them for me :icon_wink:
Ununseptium - http://www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elements/117.html
Sounds heavy!