[Noisebridge-discuss] DL380s

[Dr. Jesus]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Matt Peterson<matt at peterson.org> wrote:
> I agree servers, especially vintage ones suck up lots of power, produce
> heat, are loud, etc - they totally belong in a server room...
>
> ...Hoever, what's better: hiding the equipment that was donated to NB,
> physically outside of the space and only accessible to a tiny minority
> at layer 1 OR making them available to any guest/member, as they see
> fit, whenever?

The same could be said for the main mediawiki server.

> Instead of out right 'banning' servers (lets face it, NB has folks who
> knob turn for a living and those who'd like to learn more), maybe a cap
> on Amps and/or dB for the 'server room' in space 2.0 (the current space
> is way too small for this) would work better?  This is part of the
> reason I'm a big fan of Soekris-style routers and appliances for the
> space, a few amps vs. big Cisco boxes.

Speaking of which, r00ter needs some configuration still...

> If the existing servers aren't of major use to NB (due say vintage,
> U space, power, etc requirements) why not just donated them to ACCRC
> (or to a member who really wants them)?

The machine learning people wanted to use the DL380s, but they
couldn't keep them on in the space for noise and power reasons.