[Chicago] free computers

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Tue Aug 30 22:20:00 CEST 2011


right

and later the heat will help dry out the basement.

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
<mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Is that how you plan to provide cooling?
>
> On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> my basement floods pretty often :)
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
>> <mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>>> 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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