Hello all,
I hope you will excuse the intrusion it was suggested I make my way in here,
more on that in a bit. I'm a FlightGear user and a terrrible one at that. I
just enjoy playing with the interfacing (simpit if you will) so really a
hardware guy and have no claim to be a programmer just a bit of PIC and altera.
Dont mind learning just havn't done much as of yet. Hopefully I can be redeemed
a bit by my networking skills, am a bit of a cisco junkie.
Anyway heres what happened my day job Im a broadcast engineer but just so
happen to work in the same building as our corprate data center. They were
cleaning out and I inherited an IBM x455 cluster. Its 4 chassis each equipped
with 4 1.5Ghz Itanium 2's and 16GB ram for a system total of 16 Itanium 2's and
64GB ram. I misquoted on another list thought 8GB per CPU but was 8GB per bank.
Sooo they need to serve a more noble (and fun) purpose than the mundane task of
traffic and billing. Being servers they arnt exactly equipped for graphic apps.
It was suggested I jump on here and see what kind of background tasks they
would be good for. As of now they have win 2003 loaded but arnt licensed, Ive
been looking at linux but not sure how well if at all it will handle the
clustering.
These were in service untill earlier this year, yep they needed more power and
went to blade centers. New cost of the cluster in 06 was $90,000 USD must be
nice to throw that kind of money around (away) everyone was in awe when they
rolled in. What a waste almost as long as its been since my last raise Hmmm.
Let me know what you think,
Austin
"Austin, you might want to contact the FlightGear folks (the developers
list specifically). There are text base services those machines could
perform, like multi-player & map servers and maybe even a TerraGear
generation farm."
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