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

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DaFinn

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

Thanks............😀
 
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