[Noisebridge-discuss] To hack or to punt? Trying to revive my Quad-core server.

Brian Morris cymraegish at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 01:17:17 UTC 2011


I've thought about having  a machine like this as something to put a GOOD
graphics card in, that is something that does GPGPU / OpenCL in 64 bit
native precision. This is where the action is these days, at least in my
neighborhood.

My best thought now on playing with it is to find another working machine
and start swapping parts. Yes there is a good chance that the motherboard is
blown altogether or it will be soon.

Smaller case I disagree with as you want the space for air circulation. Some
people are putting in multiple gpu boards. The speedups with a GOOD desktop
card are on the order of 256 or better. Physics codes running 24/7 for a
month are reduced to overnight. This includes image recognition training
programs for robotics helps. The robot can learn in its sleep without having
to hibernate for a month.




On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:

> FYI what I would do is gank the cpu memory and disk and buy a REAL cheap
> board and put it into a WAY smaller/quieter case.  It is still an OK cpu
> even by todays standards since it is a quad core.  It is still faster than
> most new laptops today as well (even the i7 ones)
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ken Adler <ken.adler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a quad-core server (
>> http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml  upgraded to
>> 4 G RAM) that I am trying to refresh.
>>
>> I plugged it in and was not able to get any video .
>>
>> So I went out and bought a new video card and plugged that in... still no
>> video  -  tried both VGA and DVI.  I confirmed that the monitor is working
>> fine (plugged it into another PC and it worked)
>>
>> My question is, should I just give up now and resign myself to trashing
>> the PC?
>>
>> Alternatively, if I bring it into NoiseBridge (coming in for Pyclass
>> tonight) is there some strategy for troubleshooting/ necessitating the PC
>> without access to video-out initially.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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>> Ken at adler.net
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