[Chicago] free computers

Brian Herman bherma3 at uic.edu
Wed Aug 31 00:23:40 CEST 2011


Massimo basically we are rebuilding our monitor wall.
[image: wall1.jpg]
These machines will be put to good use.


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>wrote:

> I have a fork lift.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Kumar McMillan
> <kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So... you'd basically need a fork lift to pick up one of these racks?
> > Well, post back to the list if they consider giving away pieces
> > instead ;) CHIRP Radio could probably use a couple for our server
> > closet and/or re-purpose some drives but I have no idea how we'd
> > transport an entire rack of 32.
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:22 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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