The Official TeAm Anandtech BEOWULF Thread. Donations Welcome.

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: Engineer
There is NOW a paragraph in the Recruiting Threads (other forums) about the Beowulf Cluster that the SETI team is organizing/building....Thank you very much AT Moderators!

WoooooHoooooooooooo

EXCELLENT !!!

Lets see what kind of response we get now.


I may relocate the BEOWULF to another location that has generator backup. (Before it's all assembled.)
We can't be down because of a little power problem can we?

I have found two small hard drives, a Trident and S3 video card in my pile of junk. Tack that on the list.


--LANMAN

 

[SpiffyGuy]

I got a stick of 128 pc100 I can donate. All my other parts are now used in seti rigs. Let me know if ya need it.

 

[LANMAN]

Thanks SpiffyGuy!

Once most of the mobo's come in and I get a chance to see what we have, I'll see if there is a need for your memory.

Thanks for spare parts! We may just need it.

--LANMAN

 

[EvilWobbles]

Are we locked in on 10/100 Ethernet cards? I have a bunch of SMC Ethernet cards but I know they are all 10 mbit cards.

Are you guys interested in these cards? I have at least 10.

 

[networkman]

I've made a commitment of (18) 10/100 PCI nics to the effort, so we should be okay for network cards.

 

[Engineer]

Name the Beowulf poll added!

 

[Shuxclams]

GreatWhiteNorth Has informed me that he has "some BP6's" he can donate. More coming!













SHUX

 

[networkman]

Okay, I have confirmation AND I have the power supplies!

(24) Enlight ATS150 microATX 150watt power supplies

I also have an additional (6) 145watt standard ATX power supplies, so there's another base covered.

 

[Engineer]

You guys are flat out awsome!

 

[Shuxclams]

HOLY COW! :Q Awesome work!!!













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[Assimilator1]

Right firstly I havent had time to read the entire thread ,sorry

I have 2 spare 230w ATX PSU's ,1 200AT PSU ,& 1 1Mb S3 PCI graphics card ,the trouble is I suspect it would cost a small fortune to ship any of it from here in the UK to the USA.Thoughts guys?

Migroo
Won't you have the same probs?

Confused
Maybe you could setup a mini cluster at your place? ,I'd be willing to give you those bits.Btw I also have a Slot1 Cel 300A that does 450MHz at def vcore but I'd want a little something for that,though it'd be no good for a BP6!

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Confused
Maybe you could setup a mini cluster at your place? ,I'd be willing to give you those bits.Btw I also have a Slot1 Cel 300A that does 450MHz at def vcore but I'd want a little something for that,though it'd be no good for a BP6!

Hey, i'm paying my mum £10 per month for electricity for "all the damn computers you have running all the bloody time" so i think i might even be able to get away with it! :Q

Plus, i have space for a few nodes (and was going to start my own crack rack) so i reckon i could actually do it!

This way it truly could be a whole Team, multinational effort, all running under one account!

I will check it out with the mother, and get back to you, and any UK/Europeans who want to donate could send it to me in UK rather than all the way over the pond to America

Confused

 

[Sharam]

I know I have a 4MB S3 or Trident PCI Vid Card and possibly a 24 or 48 port patch panel with the rack.
EDIT (Bracket I mean)

Other than older 32MB EDO DIMMs I think I have a 64MB PC 133 Module as well.

Just moved so I have to do some digging to be sure! lol.


Sharam.

 

[lane42]

WOW, Sharam just joined the Team and he's allready donating stuff to the rack WTG Sharam

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: lane42
WOW, Sharam just joined the Team and he's allready donating stuff to the rack WTG Sharam

Yeah, way to go Sharam! I can see we are going to get along just nicely

I am still offering to host a UK/Europe leg of the beowulf

Confused

 

[Shuxclams]

A European TeAm Beowulf? WoW!













SHUX

 

[Migroo]

Assim1 - Presumably. I'm not sure of the amount so I'll see once I get to the Post Office. I'm willing to pay anything up to a tenner, seeing that NICs arent really that heavy at all.

 

[LANMAN]

Sharam,

You have PM.

--LANMAN

 

[Evadman]

I can toss in some memory ( probably only one stick of 128 )
a bunch of 80mm case fans (Cooling is needed right?)
I also have a 10/100 nic I can spare along with a 10mbit 24 port hub if it would work.
I have a bunch of 56k modems I could trade or sell for some $ for some more Nics.
I have a good 6 mice and 20 AT keyboards as well.

oh, and if NWM's floppies are not enough, I have another 6 I can part with.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Rather than fooling with KVM's wouldn't it be better to use something like VNC and remote admin them. If you need something for init setup just keep an extra monitor handy or something.

 

[Shuxclams]

Not sure that VNC will work as each node will be booted from a floppy that connects to the "head" machine and mounts the partition as if it was local.













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[networkman]

VNC might still work though.. depending upon the configuration, the program should be runnable(?) from a shared drive/network drive or subdirectory for each machine... ?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Engineer
Looking for cheap 128M PC100 RAM to donate?....Office Max has Kingston 128M modules for $17.99 with a $10.00 MIR for a cost of $7.99 + tax. I'll see if I can grab one for the project....if several others did the same, would be great. Even at $17.99 each, its still cheaper than Pricewatch which had $20.00 as it's cheapest for any speed 128M ram.

Also, as soon as I get the Video cards (mentioned above) out of the PC's, I'll forward them to LANMAN!

I am going by Office Max today. I will see if the same pricing and rebate applies to Alaska.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve

Originally posted by: Engineer
Looking for cheap 128M PC100 RAM to donate?....Office Max has Kingston 128M modules for $17.99 with a $10.00 MIR for a cost of $7.99 + tax. I'll see if I can grab one for the project....if several others did the same, would be great. Even at $17.99 each, its still cheaper than Pricewatch which had $20.00 as it's cheapest for any speed 128M ram.

Also, as soon as I get the Video cards (mentioned above) out of the PC's, I'll forward them to LANMAN!

I am going by Office Max today. I will see if the same pricing and rebate applies to Alaska.

Good grief. Not only did they not have it on sale, the baseline price was $49.99 for 128MB of PC100! :Q I know we have a higher cost of living up here, but that is retarded! Looks like my only contribution will be what I can get with my vendor credit.

Hmm, unless a friend of mine who takes care of computer matters for his company has some more junk to get rid of.

 

[Shuxclams]

Any donation is and will be used and appreciated.











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