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Look good but very unreliable!!! (not Dell's fault)
Note: taken with work's digital camera: a Sony coolpix.
24/7/06 - Added to the Cream of the Crop pool
The Server rack is gettting occupied by DELL components! The fantastic high performance DELL PowerEdge will be installed to enable smooth office operations for rocket scientists ;-)
#buildyourdatacenter #dell
Yay, I've replaced four of this black dummies/placeholders by real memory modules in the PER430.
Have a great weekend!
A mix of old and new machines struggling for power in the attic of the Department of Genetics, Downing Site.
Source: 130418_123201.RAF; 130418_123227.RAF; 130418_123248.RAF; 130418_123354.RAF; 130418_123416.RAF; 130418_123449.RAF; 130418_123523.RAF
Edited: Cluster.tif
Day 13.....
Well after a hard day at work I get to then put my head in books for a few hours.
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon 18-200mm
Flash: Nikon SB900
Serially executing the cdrom tray eject command on a 18-node cluster of Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers.
This is actually more useful than it looks. With piles of hardware getting IPs and hostnames assigned dynamically it is always good to make sure that your machines are named the way you expect, especially if MAC addresses were gathered or organized "by hand" -- it can be pretty easy to mess the order up.
One way to test is to run the "eject" command serially (in order by hostname).
If the trays pop out sequentially then you know that your nodes have been provisioned in the proper order.
Side note - this is a pretty beefy cluster. Each of the 18 Dell 1950 servers has dual Quad-Core CPUs and 32 gigs of memory.
In the server room at my office. The servers don't look like much from the front, but they do have a single exclamation point warning light that comes on when there is something amiss.
I like the silouette of Kevin on the other side of the rack contemplating the skyline out the window.
Just racked up a trio of new servers at my work today . They smell so nice when you first turn them on!
Fellow sys admins would understand...
Dell rackmount Xeon systems in the only populated part of the old Bank of Albuquerque building, home to the data storage systems of the entire downtown and more.
boredom (and lots of newegg orders) has led to this - me building 2 nostalgic computers and configuring a Dell server. I had to do something with all those WinXP licenses after all
next up - either a home theatre PC or an Intel Q6600 machine or maybe a Core i7 machine
For the techies, here's what we're looking at. (note: I don't do ANY pc gaming - the video cards are just whatever was readily available in AGP/PCI which is pretty rare these days)
Left to right:
Dell PowerEdge SC440 w/WinServer 2008 x64 Enterprise
Intel Dual Core Xeon 3040 1.86ghz 2mb cache 1066mhz FSB
4gb DDR2 667mhz ECC RAM
EVGA GeForce FX 5200 128mb PCI video card (onboard sucks)
WD 80gb 7.2krpm SATA main HD
Seagate 500gb 7.2krpm SATA secondary HD
Asus DVD-ROM
Pioneer 20x DVD/RW
Intel PRO/1000GT NIC (onboard sucks)
FrozenCPU.com modified Lian-Li PC-65B windowed case
The internals of this comp used to be in the case on the right - an Alienware 2001DV that cost $7k configured in 2001.
Intel D850GB motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 Socket 423 1.8ghz proc 256k cache w/400mhz FSB + ThermalTake indigo orb HSF
2gb Samsung Rambus RD800
Hitachi Deskstar 60gb 7.2krpm IDE main HD
WD 120gb 7.2krpm IDE secondary HD
XFX GeForce 6200 512mb AGP video card (only because my awesome red PCB Gainward GeForce 4 Ti4600 seems to be overheating a lot)
Koutech PCI to USB 2.0 card (in 2001, USB 2.0 wasn't around)
Lian-Li USB 2.0 3.5" card reader
Asus DVD-ROM
Pioneer 20x DVD/RW
Intel PRO/1000MT NIC
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 400W PSU
Alienware 2001DV
Asus P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard
Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 3.2ghz w/HT, 512k cache, 800mhz FSB + ThermalTake Volcano 7+ copper HSF
3gb Corsair XMS3200 (cas latency 2)
Matrox Parhelia 512 128mb AGP video card (triple monitor support)
Seagate Barracuda 15krpm 18gb Ultra160 SCSI main drive
Seagate Barracuda 15krpm 36gb Ultra160 SCSI secondary drive
WD 120gb 7.2krpm IDE storage drive
Adaptec 29160N PCI SCSI controller
SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum 5.1 PCI sound card
Lian-Li USB 2.0 3.5" card reader
Asus DVD-ROM
Pioneer 20x DVD/RW
Intel PRO/1000GT NIC
Enermax 500W PSU
yea, retro computing. good times. note very little storage in all the comps since there's plenty of TBs worth of storage on my network
the Matrox Parhelia card powers a triple-monitor setup (new LCDs coming soon - those are circa 2001 once again) that looks like this
Dell Poweredge 2950 Dual Quad Core Xeon servers and PowerVault MD1000 on top of the LAB rack. These are going to replace most of the old servers in the racks.
Will Venters, University Lecturer at London School of Economics and Steve O'Donnel at Dell in the Clouds Think Tank at the Skyloft, Millbank, London.
Jacqui Sassereth, Cognitive Channels Ltd at Dell in the Clouds Think Tank at the Skyloft, Millbank, London.
I got this in 2012. It was old then. It's now 10 years old, but I'm still putting it to good uses. I run Windows Server 2012 R2 and use that as a file and Hyper-V server. Hyper-V is running two virtual machines: (1) A VPN server (CentOS with OpenVPN) and (2) An installation of Windows 7 which I use as an iTunes server to feed the Apple TV.