[eug-lug]Those HP Servers
As you know if you were at EUGLUG's clinic last night, we have four monstrous HP servers that the City of Eugene recently donated. The biggest of them has dual 200 MHz Pentiums, 512 MB of RAM, a hardware RAID of 12 drives totaling 78 GB, and triply redundant power supplies, all housed in a cabinet the size and shape of an end table. So, compared to a $300 PC from Best Buy, these machines are slow, huge, and power hungry, but they have good disk bandwidth, and their power supplies won't burn out anytime soon. (-: They are also free. The question is, what should we do with them? Larry suggested donating them to a local nonprofit, and I think that's a good idea. But it'd be good to target a nonprofit that can actually use the performance characteristics of the machines that we have. I'm thinking a database server. What could a nonprofit do with a high performance database over 10 GB in size? Maybe we could have a contest for the most creative use of these servers, and award the servers to the best entrants? Or would society get the most benefit from recycling these junkers responsibly, then holding a bake sale to buy Headstart a new Celeron box? Brainstorming time. Throw out some ideas. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]Those HP Servers
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 03:30 PM, Bob Miller wrote: As you know if you were at EUGLUG's clinic last night, we have four monstrous HP servers that the City of Eugene recently donated. The biggest of them has dual 200 MHz Pentiums, 512 MB of RAM, a hardware RAID of 12 drives totaling 78 GB, and triply redundant power supplies, all housed in a cabinet the size and shape of an end table. snip The question is, what should we do with them? Larry suggested donating them to a local nonprofit, and I think that's a good idea. But it'd be good to target a nonprofit that can actually use the performance characteristics of the machines that we have. Found at least one, KRVM which is a project of the 4J school district is in need of a stable FTP/Samba server for keeping audio files and serving them up to students for purposes of Media production. I'm thinking a database server. What could a nonprofit do with a high performance database over 10 GB in size? keeping a list of who's naughty and nice ;-) -- You are the eventuality of an anomaly , which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. -The Architect Microsoft has resolved this issue. We have put processes in place to ensure there is no recurrence of this eventuality. -Microsoft ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
Re: [eug-lug]Those HP Servers
Maybe we could have a contest for the most creative use of these servers, and award the servers to the best entrants? Or would society get the most benefit from recycling these junkers responsibly, then holding a bake sale to buy Headstart a new Celeron box? Brainstorming time. Throw out some ideas. Mini fridge. -- [ SiMpLe MaChInEs ] -- gopher://beaker.mdns.org or (via proxy) http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?gopher://beaker.mdns.org:70/1 ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
