[Noisebridge-discuss] Servers

[John Menerick]

If there are any audiophiles, some white noise generators would be
interesting to play with.   However, my audio/electronic-lacking skills
prevent me from making a device or two.

John


On 1/14/09 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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