Sorry Dave - Pete's got one and Brett has the other.
There may be more in the future, its hard to know and impossible to predict.
TBH I thought there would be a lot more interest.
Is it that the local geeks are saturated with hardware?
Or the physicallity of a large server is off-putting?
Or that these were too small?
(unlikely - there was more ram in these boxes than all my own
machines combined!)
Or that the CPUs on offer were AMD64 Opterons not intel ?
Should I be trying for other kit?
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 22:19:50 +0000
> From: David van Leeuwen <david.vanleeu...@canterbury.ac.nz>
> To: Canterbury Linux Users Group <linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Linux-users Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7
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> Hi Criggie,
> I can find a home for any of these G5 or better in my Beowulf cluster at
> Uni, if no one else has a need for them.
> Dave
>
>
>> On 27/02/2017, at 2:02 pm, Criggie <crig...@criggie.org.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/02/2017, at 4:44 pm, criggie
>>> <crig...@criggie.org.nz<mailto:crig...@criggie.org.nz>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 26/02/17 16:41, criggie wrote:
>>>
>>> I have received a couple of servers for passing on to LUG members.
>>> Both are Hewlett Packard DL585 servers, with snotloads of CPUs and
>>> gobs of ram.
>>> They have "inner" rack rails but not outer ones... these might still
>>> arrive but also might not.
>>> Each server has exactly one 72GB hard drive, so you're not going to
>>> want to use them as fileservers.
>>> The only restriction is that you have to use them.If you sell them on I
>>> might loose this supply, and that would be bad.
>>> Anyway - these are servers. That means they're loud, so be aware of
>>> that.
>>> Please email me off list if you're interested.
>>
>>> From: David van Leeuwen <david.vanleeu...@canterbury.ac.nz>
>>> which generation model are these?
>>
>> HP DL585 G5 with 24 cores and 96 GB ram. Opteron 8439 2.8 GHz
>> It has four six-core CPUs and a working ILO. There's one spare dimm
>> too.
>> This has 2 PSUs for redundancy and runs fine on one. There are special
>> power cables included.
>>
>> HP DL585 G7 with 48 cores and 128 GB ram. Opteron 6176 2.3 GHz
>> It has four twelve-core CPUs and ILO. No spare dimms.
>> This one has 4 PSUs for redundancy, but can run on one. Uses normal
>> power cords.
>>
>> Both servers have eight 2.5" drive bays, but only one 15K 72GB drive is
>> available with each. Both have a slimline optical drive, and internal
>> USB ports.
>>
>> They were vmware servers in a previous life and have been replaced
>> because the HP carepacks start getting really expensive.
>>
>>
>> Will email some photos off-list.
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