[Chicago] free computers

[Brian Herman]

UIC ACM will take all of these.
You can use this as a tax writeoff.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>wrote:

> ok, maybe I dont want any of this.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Massimo Di Pierro
> <mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> > No kidding. Apparently they sell gas based turbines to pump heat out of
> large computer clusters and use it to heat water. Some universities sell
> back the hot water to the university and nearby buildings for a profit. The
> gas to run the turbines is relatively cheap compared to the electricity for
> regular cooling.
> >
> > On Aug 30, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Carl Karsten wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >>>>>
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Brian Herman

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