[Noisebridge-discuss] Servers

[Ian]

john bought some fans that are suppose to be quieter. we're going to try
them out on the servers at our place. we'll see if they work out.
thanks,

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:59 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
> 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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