Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 05:43:39PM +, Calum Chisholm wrote: As there are still no takers for the workstation, I've left it in the space for the time being (it's to the right of the safe). If nobody takes a fancy to it over the next week, I'll take it away again next Tuesday and junk it. If no one else speaks up before Thursday, I will take it on Thursday night and make a donation to the space. -- Tom @adventureloop adventurist.me #pragma summon cthulhu :wq pgp7M3Qi7QpQ9.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
As there are still no takers for the workstation, I've left it in the space for the time being (it's to the right of the safe). If nobody takes a fancy to it over the next week, I'll take it away again next Tuesday and junk it. Cheers, Calum On 27 January 2015 at 10:06, Calum Chisholm calum.chish...@gmail.com wrote: Not a problem. It's in the space now if you change your mind. Cheers, Calum On 26 January 2015 at 18:49, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey Calum, I did have some mild interest, but honestly I can’t think of anything in particular I’d use it for. So I’m not really interested any more, sorry. :/ Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On 26/01/15 12:29, Andrea Faulds wrote: [...] I might be interested if I learned a bit of its capabilities. This is a workstation from 10 years ago: what can it do today? How well do some applications run? Hi, Andrea. I think it has dual 2-core Opteron 200 series processors, which are quite good, and 16GiB of RAM: I think this would be a good machine to use for non-VM work if that's what you're interested in? It's similar to the 2U 'Rackable Systems' servers that I donated to the Space, but subsequently gave to Tom because everyone complained about how much electricity they might use if we eventually got them working! Tom can give you an idea of how well OpenBSD etc. runs. I found them very good for running non-VM tasks under Ubuntu 12.04 (I used them as worker nodes in a Beowulf, but stored them in my cold, damp garage). HTH, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324mailto:tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
Hi Andrea, I had been using it as a combination NAS / MythTV back-end / Squeezebox server and general purpose desktop, and I've never found it lacking CPU or memory resources. It's not going to compete with a modern server for serious number crunching, but it's still a pretty capable machine, particularly if you're making use of the extra RAM and/or expansion slots. It originally came with Redhat installed, so you'll find it should have pretty good Linux support. Cheers, Calum On 26 January 2015 at 12:29, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey Calum, On 26 Jan 2015, at 11:41, Calum Chisholm calum.chish...@gmail.com wrote: Tony informs me that he won't be able to use this machine as the processors don't have built-in AMD-V support, so it looks like it's still up for grabs. If anyone else is interested, give me a shout before tomorrow evening and I'll bring it along to the space. I might be interested if I learned a bit of its capabilities. This is a workstation from 10 years ago: what can it do today? How well do some applications run? Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On 26/01/15 14:09, Tom Jones wrote: [...] One has FreeBSD and the other had GNU/debian/linux/openbsd/mit/... Hi, Tom. Drat, now my ignorance is exposed! I didn't know there was a difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD :-) Mutter, mutter... Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324mailto:tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
Hey Calum, On 26 Jan 2015, at 11:41, Calum Chisholm calum.chish...@gmail.com wrote: Tony informs me that he won't be able to use this machine as the processors don't have built-in AMD-V support, so it looks like it's still up for grabs. If anyone else is interested, give me a shout before tomorrow evening and I'll bring it along to the space. I might be interested if I learned a bit of its capabilities. This is a workstation from 10 years ago: what can it do today? How well do some applications run? Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On 26/01/15 13:57, Tom Jones wrote: [...] No idea how OpenBSD would run, I could try if you want. Sorry, Tom. Thought you were running BSD on them ;-) Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324mailto:tony.tra...@minke-informatics.co.uk ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 02:06:10PM +, Tony Travis wrote: On 26/01/15 13:57, Tom Jones wrote: [...] No idea how OpenBSD would run, I could try if you want. Sorry, Tom. Thought you were running BSD on them ;-) One has FreeBSD and the other had GNU/debian/linux/openbsd/mit/... -- Tom @adventureloop adventurist.me :wq ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
Tony informs me that he won't be able to use this machine as the processors don't have built-in AMD-V support, so it looks like it's still up for grabs. If anyone else is interested, give me a shout before tomorrow evening and I'll bring it along to the space. Cheers, Calum On 25 January 2015 at 15:52, Calum Chisholm calum.chish...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tony, It's an IBM Intellistation A, type 6217 (according to wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_IntelliStation#IntelliStation_A_Pro I'm not sure of the exact processor model, but I'll fire it up this evening and investigate. Cheers, Calum On 25 January 2015 at 15:43, Tony Travis tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk wrote: On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote: Hi all, As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out. Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite recently for crunching geoscience data within a big oil company, and is still a surprisingly capable machine. It's a dual-opteron (8 core?) Intellistation A with 16gb RAM. I'll be removing the hard drives, but it has room for at least 4 internally, as well as 2 optical drives and plenty of card slots. The video board is a dual-head Nvidea Quattro - I'm not sure of the exact version, but presumably a fairly high-end card at the time it was produced given what it was used for. It's worth pointing out that it's not your typical PC World desktop - it's built like a brick (it's big and heavy!), and the fan noise can be quite loud, especially on start-up. If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll bring it along on Tuesday. It can be yours in return for a small donation to the space. Hi, Calum. I'm interested: Which model is it? Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK. tel +44(0)1224 272700, fax +44 (0)1224 272 396 http://www.abdn.ac.uk, mailto:tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, skype:ajtravis The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683. ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote: Hi all, As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out. Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite recently for crunching geoscience data within a big oil company, and is still a surprisingly capable machine. It's a dual-opteron (8 core?) Intellistation A with 16gb RAM. I'll be removing the hard drives, but it has room for at least 4 internally, as well as 2 optical drives and plenty of card slots. The video board is a dual-head Nvidea Quattro - I'm not sure of the exact version, but presumably a fairly high-end card at the time it was produced given what it was used for. It's worth pointing out that it's not your typical PC World desktop - it's built like a brick (it's big and heavy!), and the fan noise can be quite loud, especially on start-up. If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll bring it along on Tuesday. It can be yours in return for a small donation to the space. Hi, Calum. I'm interested: Which model is it? Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK. tel +44(0)1224 272700, fax +44 (0)1224 272 396 http://www.abdn.ac.uk, mailto:tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, skype:ajtravis The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683. ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
Re: [57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home
Hi Tony, It's an IBM Intellistation A, type 6217 (according to wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_IntelliStation#IntelliStation_A_Pro I'm not sure of the exact processor model, but I'll fire it up this evening and investigate. Cheers, Calum On 25 January 2015 at 15:43, Tony Travis tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk wrote: On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote: Hi all, As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out. Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite recently for crunching geoscience data within a big oil company, and is still a surprisingly capable machine. It's a dual-opteron (8 core?) Intellistation A with 16gb RAM. I'll be removing the hard drives, but it has room for at least 4 internally, as well as 2 optical drives and plenty of card slots. The video board is a dual-head Nvidea Quattro - I'm not sure of the exact version, but presumably a fairly high-end card at the time it was produced given what it was used for. It's worth pointing out that it's not your typical PC World desktop - it's built like a brick (it's big and heavy!), and the fan noise can be quite loud, especially on start-up. If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll bring it along on Tuesday. It can be yours in return for a small donation to the space. Hi, Calum. I'm interested: Which model is it? Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK. tel +44(0)1224 272700, fax +44 (0)1224 272 396 http://www.abdn.ac.uk, mailto:tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, skype:ajtravis The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683. ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss ___ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
