[Chicago] free computers

[Massimo Di Pierro]

The reason nobody wants this is that power consumption is high and you need some powerful cooling. You cannot keep a rack in a regular office or apartment. You need an equipped server room.

Massimo

On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote:

> This sounds like  pretty good opportunity to setup some buildslaves for someone's favorite projects' buildbots.  Were I in the city (and knew where the hell I'd stick it) I'd happily take one :(
> 
> Alex
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> I have some friends who are giving away 8 racks of 32 U1 modules in the Chicago area.
> They were purchased in 2005 and as far as I know are fully working.
> Each module has:
> 
> 1U form factor
> 3.2 GHz hyperthreaded dual Xeons
> 2GB memory
> two 10/100/1000 ethernet ports
> two small, 20-80 GBytes, disks.
> 1.7 A current draw
> Mounted 32 per rack with sliders.  Racks are 36" deep.
> Power from Cyclades PM10 PDUs
> 
> If anybody wants a rack and can arrange for transport, please contact --- redacted ---;
> They are not giving away pieces, the basic unit is the rack.
> 
> Massimo
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