The Official TeAm Anandtech BEOWULF Thread. Donations Welcome.

[Mardeth]

Well I have 500Mhz Celly (cooler), 128mb ram PC100 and BH-II waiting for a adress.

We need more mobo and processors or are there more on the way?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

I am waiting on a reply on what kind of procs my source has now. He may have mobos, too.

 

[LANMAN]

Mardeth,

You have PM.

--LANMAN

 

[Mardeth]

Sorry LANMAN, but my pm doesnt seem to work. If you could please send a email to mardeth133@hotmail.com .

 

[Freewolf]

Your pm's isn't working because you don't have them turned on in your profile.
There's a guy over on hardocp selling a mb with 2 cpu's for $70.00 but I don't have the cash to get them.

 

[LANMAN]

Mardeth,

YHM.

--LANMAN

 

[LANMAN]

Freewolf,

Do you have a linky on that sale?

--LANMAN

 

[LastKnight]

this looks like it

the package we discussed earlier will be on its way to you as soon as I can leave work without someone stopping me at the door.

 

[networkman]

I've sent quite a bit of stuff already, but I've got a few more 10/100 nics and about (15) more 150watt ATX power supplies to ship out yet.

If we want to make use of them, I sincerely suggest we open up the restrictions on boards/processors a little bit - obviously, to keep things manageable we don't want everything being sent, but if we can agree on say a half-dozen different boards, it would help the project significantly.

 

[Freewolf]

ygpm

 

[Mardeth]

Maybe we should go and post some messages on major hardware forums and ask for donations of all kind. (Paypal, old hardware etc. etc.)

Something like "Do you want to be part of world largest sivilian supercomputer (lol). Well you can now...."

The problem could be that there would be too much stuff we cant use or cant afford using. Thought I dont think this will be the case. LANMAN cant have half of the worlds outdated hardware in his basement , can he? The problem could be solved by selling the stuff and buying with the money something better.

Too ambisious?

 

[Freewolf]

Most of the forums have their own Seti team so I don't think they would like that idea to much

 

[muttley]

How about we set up our own franchise of internet caffe' and with laundromat serving beverages and playing lan games.
We pick spots where more well to do Anandechers have homes and and our fellow enthusasts that have been long term friends can move into the same city and run the the business jointly some as management with full time jobs and others with working the store sorta a starbucks with laundry and you just shut the doors on the laundry cause it gets to hot and you need drinks to cool down and entertainment in the meanwhile.
Slower computers could be used for word processors.
$84 for nforce and a $55 1600+XP makes a 200+fps game rig.

muttley

 

[muttley]

The caffe' I was at in San Rafael ran something like this your name was on file you came in and you got 30 minutes free to check your email and if you went over that you got charged.

muttley

 

[muttley]

might as well build and repair PC also.

 

[muttley]

Acorp ATX Dual Socket 370 Mobo w/ RAID (Now $29.95 + $7 s/h)

http://subscriber.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=839255

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=6A815EPD

no linky am in linux Konqueror

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: muttley
Acorp ATX Dual Socket 370 Mobo w/ RAID (Now $29.95 + $7 s/h)

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=839255

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=6A815EPD

Linked

 

[Confused]

OK, i think my BP6 is dead, so depending on what i decide to get for my server, i may have a pair of 366s and a pair of 400s that can be used for the Beowulf

 

[Swanny]

Originally posted by: muttley
Acorp ATX Dual Socket 370 Mobo w/ RAID (Now $29.95 + $7 s/h)

http://subscriber.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=40&threadid=839255

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=6A815EPD

no linky am in linux Konqueror

AFAIK those only run P3's in dual mode. But maybe there is some mod you can do to make them run celeries. Like cutting pins maybe?

 

[PeterN]

A little donation ($5) is send to the paypal account.

Lanman,
Don't foget to take pictures of the whole process while building the Beowulf, including the preparations (like cleaning up your basement and such )

It would make a written history of the machine more lively.

BTW, Am working on some sort of a portal about DC in general and can setup pages, especially for the Beowulf, if needed on that website.
I can also host the pics, if needed.

Peter.

 

[LANMAN]

Thanks for the donation Pete!!

I have to run a PC over to the site this afternoon anyway. I'll snap some quick pics.

A workstation almost burned out the P/S; Did anyone know Gateway puts 90w p/s in their low profile PC's? It was running rc5 until today.
But now it will be upgraded to Win2k with SETI installed. :Q

Ah yes.. another assimulation.

(little bump for the cause too)

--LANMAN

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Then potential source I discovered is not answering my PM's any more, not sure why. Going to give him until tomorrow, then I will try contacting him via e-mail.

 

[EvilWobbles]

I was looking for some stuff over on E*ay and came across this auction. Lots of good stuff that could contribute greatly to the Beowulf project. Anyone interested in bidding on this stuff? What kind of Paypal funds do we have to put towards this stuff?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2048984611&rd=1

 

[Engineer]

CompUSA has 64Meg SDRAM modules FREE this weekend...after $19.99 Mail In Rebate. If a few ran out and got them...

I may if I have time!

 

[Confused]

Bump and LANMAN, YGPM