Read 'em and weep, fellas!

[OhioDude]

Just got me a new toy.

Dell PowerEdge 2900
2 x Dual Core 3.00 GHz Xeon 5160 Woodies (Woodcrest)
1333 MHz FSB
4 GB 533 MHz DDR2 RAM
4 x 146 GB 15K rpm SAS hard drives (3 in a RAID-5 config, 1 as a hot spare)
2 x 36 GB 15K rpm SAS hard drives (RAID-1)
200/400 GB LTO-2 SCSI tape drive
DVD, Gigabit NICS, and all that other stuff

This puppy will run around $11,000 new. I picked up this as a refurb at the Dell Outlet store for around $4,500!!! :Q

Unfortunately, I just adopted a policy of not running DC on my servers, mostly because of heat issues in my server room. (Eight servers, underpowered A/C )

I may just fire up Rosetta for a little bit just to see how she does. Muahahahahahaha!

 

[ProviaFan]

Nice.

I'm not jealous, of course!

 

[panhead49]

Unfortunately, I just adopted a policy of not running DC on my servers, mostly because of heat issues in my server room. (Eight servers, underpowered A/C )

i think you need to run some SETI on it for break-in....

edit....i am jealous !!!

 

[keeleysam]

Is this for work or personal use?

 

[TurtleBlue]

Congrats, OhioDude!!! :beer:

Nice pick-up

 

[Smoke]

Winters coming ... crack a window in your server room.

Great rig and great hearing from you George.

 

[oztrailrider]

Very nice. I want one

 

[OhioDude]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Is this for work or personal use?

Work use. It will eventually host business intelligence applications for a number of our customers, so I won't be running DC on it once it assumes its permanent role.

 

[apriest]

Over the weekend I got one of two servers fired up here running Rosetta that's quite similar to your new toy. Still building the second one.

2x Dual Core Xeon 5130s, 2.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 4MB L2 Cache
4x Kingston 512MB (2GB total), 667MHz DDR2, 5-5-5, Single Rank, x8
5x Seagate ST3250624NS 250GB SATA/300 Hard Drive, 7200 RPM, 8ms, 16MB Cache, RAID 5 w/ hotspare

It's this bad boy here if you want to see a 3D tour of it: http://www.intel.com/design/servers/smarttool/VSTs/SR2500popup.html
We got the remote management module, redundant cooling, and redundant power supplies for these servers.

I'm very impressed with the speed compiling things in Linux. I can't give 4 cores enough work to do! I haven't had enough time running Rosetta to get very good numbers out of it yet, but I've got high hopes for it. Heat so far has not been an issue. I was able to set the BIOS to acoustic mode instead of performance mode and it has run very well in testing, producing very little heat but hardly ever throttling back FSB or CPU either. In performance mode the redundant fans are overkill and sound like a jetliner taking off.

Hopefully Dell actually supplied you with 4x 1GB 667MHz DIMMs instead of 2x 2GB 533MHz DIMMs. That architecture is actually a quad channel design, not a dual, and to take advantage of the 1333MHz FSB the 5160 has you need 667MHz memory. 533MHz would actually downclock the FSB to 1066MHz or run it asynchronously which would be even slower than downclocking to 1066MHz.

Have fun! Those SAS drives are nice! And expensive!!! Both our servers were less than your single one with those SAS drives! (That's why we did SATA, though our application is not disk I/O intensive).

 

[JonB]

I've got three of those in the trunk of my car. I pull them out just to play solitaire on a 14" CRT.

and I filled the hard drives with all the episodes of Trading Spaces and Flip that House.

 

[apriest]

Originally posted by: JonB
I've got three of those in the trunk of my car. I pull them out just to play solitaire on a 14" CRT.

and I filled the hard drives with all the episodes of Trading Spaces and Flip that House.

Oh, WOW! Haha! You better have some good batteries in that car!

 

[OhioDude]

Hopefully Dell actually supplied you with 4x 1GB 667MHz DIMMs instead of 2x 2GB 533MHz DIMMs.

Just looked under the covers... there are 4 1GB 667 MHz DIMMS.

Those SAS drives are nice! And expensive!!! Both our servers were less than your single one with those SAS drives!

The 200/400 GB LTO tape drive added a few bucks to the price as well. Dell sells that drive for around $1700.

The OS will get installed this evening. Then I'll let her chew on Rosie for a few days and see how she does.

 

[OhioDude]

Originally posted by: JonB
I've got three of those in the trunk of my car. I pull them out just to play solitaire on a 14" CRT.

and I filled the hard drives with all the episodes of Trading Spaces and Flip that House.

LOL!

 

[apriest]

Originally posted by: OhioDude
Just looked under the covers... there are 4 1GB 667 MHz DIMMS.

The 200/400 GB LTO tape drive added a few bucks to the price as well. Dell sells that drive for around $1700.

Great! I was hoping Dell hadn't gotten THAT short-sighted configuring their servers. You'll be happy with that memory configuration!

We are using a Quantum BHCMX-EY DLT-V4 320GB Tape Drive, 1U RM, Ultra160 SCSI, 72GB/Hr. It was the most cost effective model I could find @ $/GB. It was around $1250-1300 from reputable sources. Tapes are about $40 and good for 600hrs or 150 full read/write uses. That will last us a few years.

 

[Ayah]

fooold! Damn you. Fold!

 

[apriest]

Originally posted by: Ayah
fooold! Damn you. Fold!

I'm considering it for the 64-bit Linux server in light of the thread I read earlier this morning about using 4 CPUs for 1 WU. That sounded interesting, and something that Rosetta doesn't seem interested in doing since it apparently wouldn't affect performance as much.

 

[Kinslayer777]

I'm not jealous, unless you were running seti :s seti has plenty of crunchers...
Rosetta is nice, but what about splitting rosetta and f@h ? Well, very very cool and sweet deal.

 

[apriest]

Originally posted by: Kinslayer777
Rosetta is nice, but what about splitting rosetta and f@h ?

I really wish F@H used BOINC. It would make life so much simpler, but then they probably couldn't do the amazing things they are doing with SMP, GPUs, and 64-bit. At the moment, I'm not sure how you could run Rosetta & F@H together on the same computer without them both using BOINC.

 

[OhioDude]

The OS is installed and she's chomping on four Rosie WU's right now.

 

[Assimilator1]

Sweet rig OD!:Q

That's gonna bang out a lot of WUs!

 

[mk]

Looks like it's working. :beer:

 

[OhioDude]

Originally posted by: mk
Looks like it's working. :beer:

Yep!

She's been crunching Rosetta now for about 24 hours:

Domain name: phoenix.host.imihost.local
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Total Credit: 1,800.14

In comparison, my Athlon 64 X2 3800 gets around 550 per day.

:Q