On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if this idea will go down well, but I'll mute it anyway. > > I know William has switched off machines (t2.math for example), as he does > not have the power/cooling for them. That seems a real shame for that > machine to sit and collect dust, when it could be used.
I have the power now. The only machine that is off is t2.math. No other machine is off. That was a temporary measure in light of a *major* electrical issue that arose in the UW math server room, which was beyond my control. If anybody will volunteer to maintain t2.math at a software level, I'm happy to turn it on and give that person root. > Apart from "hawk", I have some reasonably quick x86 boxes I could put Linux > on and make available for Sage build slaves and general development. The > issue for me personally is paying the electric costs. My wife will moan at > the noise from a server, but moan even more about the cost of running them. > > So would William consider paying the electric costs for those that make > servers available, and are not covered by their institution? Would it be a > waste of money, or good use of money? > > "hawk", my OpenSolaris box uses very little power, and I want to keep it on > 24/7, so that's not an issue for me. > > But I also have a couple of IBM servers, which are reasonably powerful. I'm > swapping bits between them, but soon expect to have something with a pair of > quad core 3.16 GHz Xeons and 48 GB RAM. I suspect they will use more power > than I can justify spending from my own pocket. > > Here in the UK, except in hot periods of Summer, it's possible to run a > server in my garage without air-con, so whilst I don't have the costs of > air-conditioning, the servers themselves use power. How much exactly would the electrical costs be? > > Just a thought. > > Dave > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
