Farms, Names, Pictures, Projects and Paper Trays

[S. Starbuck]

That's a bad link, see why here:
http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Article...etraction.html

The element has infact not yet been observed, and that's why I chose the name. It's a missing element, just like that node (being offline) is at the moment.

So more links about it:
http://www.apsidium.com/elements/117.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununseptium

[Murray]

Hi S. Starbuck!

Man, all I can say is that u have a really nice little farm going there...just a quick question...How do you secure your motherboards to the trays or are they unsecured?

Regards,
Murray

[S. Starbuck]

Currently all the motherboards are simply resting in the trays, with no securing.

I may yet however drill a few holes in the trays so as to be able to screw in some standoffs, and then fix the boards in place.

On a side note, if any of you have been looking you will have noticed none of the nodes have been crunching for a while. This is because I've been having a few unrelated problems recently, and simply haven't had the time to get the running. Plus they are rather noisy (seeing as I have to sleep in the same room as them), so I am looking to replace the stock coolers with much quieter ones.

[plonk420]

have you considered something like this for HDD? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609350

i've been TOLD that they should work "just like a HDD" ..

or possibly the MLC versions of these... http://www.supertalent.com/products/...e.php?type=IDE .. those seem pretty affordable

if i saw correctly, you're using CF drives, right? if so, how are you minimizing reads/writes to them? and what OS are you using?

[S. Starbuck]

Those look interesting plonk420, I haven't seen those before.
Yes I'm currently using CF drives. They each have Arch Linux installed on them.

All I've really done is disable some logging. The drives seem to be holding up well so far, but I can see them wearing out before too long, so switching to something similar to what you linked could be a good idea.

[plonk420]

ah, after some research (not from first hand users), it seems like you would need a miniPCI-E adapter to get the first device to work. CF or cheap SSDs would be a better idea...

[S. Starbuck]

Well time for an update.

I've got money again!!

So this means I can replace these semprons. Now I have a few choices, but this is what I've come up with so far:

My motherboards are all AM2+, but limited to 95W CPUs - so the top end Phenoms and both current Phenom II's are out of the question.
I also do need to be aware of power usage, being in the shared house with other students.

What I've come up with so far is the Phenom X4 9350e (HD9350DGHBOX):
http://wheretobuy.amd.com/prodinfo/1....html?info_tab

2GHz, 4 Cores, but just 65W.

Eeach Semrpon is 62W, at 1.6GHz (and just the one core.), so replacing all four with one of those 9350e's will give me increased performance for much less power.

My normal computer store has them for £140.29 - more expensive than the top end 9950BE at £140.08. (but no good as it's at 140W)

The fastest clocked one I could fit looks like the 9750, at 95W, 2.4GHz (£123.81 from the same site).

So that would work out an extra 0.4GHz / core compared to the 9350e, but at the cost of an extra 30W.

Your thoughts?

[plonk420]

server naming awesomeness:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../02/02/2228254

[Beerknurd]

Our Unix Servers at work are all bird names... lol

[plonk420]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/02/s...etbook-sector/ <-maybe 1 step closer to cheap SSD drives
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.19384 <-found this while looking for a $90 multi-microSD drive...