[Noisebridge-discuss] Servers

[jim]

and something that reduces noise, 
maybe a baffle or enclosure. 



On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 18:08 -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 05:44:31PM -0800, Charlie Hsu wrote:
> > Has anybody done anything with the servers 
> > yet? If not, I'll scrounge around for some hard drives and memory try to set
> > something up later this week. ( Davidfine mentioned you has some, would you 
> > willing to donate one or two?)
> 
> I should write up a summary...
> 
> We have a 1U x86 (-64?) running at 83c now, named xen0.
> 
> There's a 2U x86 that had FreeBSD installed, but AFAIK nothing happened
> past that.  I turned off the machine this week due to the excessive
> thermal and fan-noise load.
> 
> There's a 2U UltraSPARC that just needs a SCA boot drive installed,
> donated from EFF.
> 
> And Rubin has a 1U machine that's been sitting around for a few months
> with a post-it.
> 
> Finally, there are far too many wierd desktop and embedded machines to
> count -- a Mac G4, two Sun Blade 100 SPARC workstations, the Jukebox
> machine, an embedded MIPS development board, some PXA270 ARM boards for
> the blimp, et cetera.  I believe we have a representative of every
> interesting processor family produced post-2002, except IA-64 and SH4.
> (That is not a challenge.)
> 
> We need to address the thermal issue in the machine closet before we
> increase the heat load in there.  At least some fans, preferably a cheap
> A/C unit and some thermal monitoring.
> 
> -andy
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