Aaaargh, ton of processing power going to waste...

[DaFinn]

Dasm,

My friend just (literally) dragged in a huge server to our office. Namely an AlphaServer ES40 6/677.
Starring 4 667Mhz Alpha processors, 4Gb of RAM, 5x 36Gb SCSI disks, Elsa synergy graphics card...
This thing weigths easily 100Kg's.

It has been a test server with a customer (for porting a new program) for 3 years, and was now returned.

Now, the question is: What the hell kind of OS should I load to get it crunching WU's???
Unfortunately there is no OS, and since this thing will be moving on on Monday,I don't think I will spent my weekend trying to learn Tru64Unix or some such thing... Not to mention that I don't have access to such a prog anyways.

Think it would take Linux???

 

[SNC]

2000 advanced server will do 4 CPUs.

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: SNC
2000 advanced server will do 4 CPUs.

Alpha processors too???

 

[lobadobadingdong]

solaris is the only OS I can think of off hand that supports the Alpha processors, there is probably a linux distro that will too, but I'm pretty sure that red hat doesn't have any.

 

[seaquake]

I'm fairly certain MS dropped ALPHA support with windows 2000. There should be an Alpha install on Windows NT 4.0, though. But I think you need an Enterprise edition or Server edition to get use of all 4 CPUs.

 

[RemyCanad]

FreeBSD

 

[grendel8]

The Alpha is still pretty well supported by Linux. Their web site is at:

http://www.alphalinux.org/

Another option is OpenVMS, but it's not likely to be easy to find. Good luck, Alpha's are great CPUs.

grendel

 

[titanmiller]

Checking the online SetiTimer reviels that each processor should average about 5 hours per WU. Not too fast, but with 4 processors it wouldnt be bad.

I'm sure that those Alphas are really fast at certain types of calculatons.

 

[Pokey]

titanmiller
you referred to an "online SetiTimer"..................I haven't run across that yet. Would you mind posting a link?

Thanks............

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: Pokey
titanmiller
you referred to an "online SetiTimer"..................I haven't run across that yet. Would you mind posting a link?

Thanks............

SetiTimer

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: DaFinn

Originally posted by: Pokey
titanmiller
you referred to an "online SetiTimer"..................I haven't run across that yet. Would you mind posting a link?

Thanks............

SetiTimer

sweet, shows my average at 2hr's 36min. on my OC'd 2500+

 

[Pokey]

Thanks for the link DaFinn and lobadobadingdong..........

'preciate it............

 

[TofBnT]

Nice!!

 

[kamper]

benchies or ban!!