[Rack] Stallion/pony
Ben Kochie
ben at nerp.net
Sun Feb 16 20:00:38 UTC 2014
200W = 1.7MWh = $300 per year.
My 6 drive sandy bridge machine is 70W at idle.
Maybe worth some $ to reduce long term cost.
On February 16, 2014 8:55:30 PM CET, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com> wrote:
>Spot on. 200 watts. Is it worth it though since we are not buying
>anything?
>
>
>On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Ronald Cotoni <setient at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> You are right. Let me see if I can find the kill o watt.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The E5405 (harpertown), if I remember correctly uses FB-DIMMs. I
>thought
>>> we wanted to reduce the power use. These will likely be 200+W
>machines.
>>> Unfortunately E-waste.
>>>
>>>
>>> On February 16, 2014 8:35:14 PM CET, Ronald Cotoni
><setient at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So this has been actually solved with 0 dollars. Kellan Jacobs
>donated
>>>> some servers to noisebridge. One was a nice fancy Xeon E5405 with
>8gb of
>>>> ram and 4x 2tb hd's. I was going to setup a raid 1 mirror with the
>other
>>>> two drives as spares (I do not know how good they are). What do
>you all
>>>> think? Also would anyone mind debian on it or should we have
>something
>>>> else on it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Ronald Cotoni
><setient at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How much do we wanna spend? I have a feeling stallion could use
>some
>>>>> new drives as well.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Ronald Cotoni
><setient at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Totally valid. I was trying to go cheap and low power for cost
>>>>>> reasons. Maybe we would not need IPMI if we could get a select
>team to
>>>>>> actually go to the space, perhaps even monitor that it is up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 15, 2014 8:20 AM, "Ben Kochie" <ben at nerp.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There were two reason I was suggesting the Supermicro+Xeon.
>>>>>>> * ECC RAM (would be more stable)
>>>>>>> * IPMI
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For a very long time we've had issues where things were broken
>for
>>>>>>> weeks, and nobody in the space seems capable of plugging in a
>VGA cable
>>>>>>> anymore. Having IPMI would let us debug boot issues from remote.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think most of the boards you suggested support VM, just want
>to
>>>>>>> make sure we keep VM support in any replacement option.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -ben
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Doh. I suck at mail.
>>>>>>>> I was thinking something significantly cheaper and lower power.
>>>>>>>> More like one of those mini it
>>>>>>>> boards with 16 gigabytes of ram and spending more like 80 but
>on the
>>>>>>>> board and processor. I
>>>>>>>> saw some nice celery 1037u boards that have TV 2 cores and usb
>>>>>>>> 3.0. They also have a pic
>>>>>>>> express card. I have even seen some with dual ethernet.
>There
>>>>>>>> are some similar AMD fusion
>>>>>>>> boards too. The whole machine would hopefully have a TDP of
>under
>>>>>>>> 100 watts even when
>>>>>>>> loaded. What do you all think? Something
>>>>>>>> like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-128-679
>but
>>>>>>>> with usb 3.0 and a pci
>>>>>>>> express slot.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net>
>wrote:
>>>>>>>> There is a 2U case on my member shelf that was destined
>to
>>>>>>>> become the new stallion.
>>>>>>>> It has a over-powered 2 CPU motherboard I was planning
>to
>>>>>>>> replace with somehting
>>>>>>>> less hungry.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?
>>>>>>>> ItemList=Combo.1519387
>>>>>>>> Combo Deal: $340
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Xeon E3-1220V3 Haswell 3.1GHz 4-core
>>>>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=
>>>>>>>> N82E16819116907
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Supermicro MBD-X10SLM-F-O - uATX
>>>>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=
>>>>>>>> N82E16813182820
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2x 8G DDR3 ECC (un-buff) $210
>>>>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=
>>>>>>>> N82E16820148770
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1U heatsink (Supermicro) $22
>>>>>>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=
>>>>>>>> N82E16816101298
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Total: $572
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -ben
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Casey Callendrello wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The closet is clear, but I'm pretty sure Stallion
>has
>>>>>>>> thrown off its
>>>>>>>> mortal coil. The last time
>>>>>>>> I poked at it, one of the NICs was bad, the
>graphics
>>>>>>>> card was flaky, and
>>>>>>>> (worst of all) the lvm
>>>>>>>> volume for Pony is failing to mount.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think it's time we pour one out for our dead
>homies
>>>>>>>> and throw in a
>>>>>>>> low-power replacement.
>>>>>>>> --Casey
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2/11/14, 11:56 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
>>>>>>>> I should also add that I'm happy to help get
>it
>>>>>>>> healthy again, but
>>>>>>>> as a non-regular
>>>>>>>> user busy with my life elsewhere, I haven't
>been
>>>>>>>> super motivated
>>>>>>>> to dive in and fix
>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>> Maybe start with a working monitor/keyboard on
>stallion?
>>>>>>>> Last I was
>>>>>>>> there to try and fix
>>>>>>>> it, I couldn't reach the back of Susan the Rack
>(there
>>>>>>>> was a giant 40+U
>>>>>>>> 4-poster wedged
>>>>>>>> into the other side of that closet)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Jonathan Lassoff
><
>>>>>>>> jof at thejof.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Pony has been offline for a long time. I can
>no
>>>>>>>> longer reach it
>>>>>>>> from remote.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Ronald Cotoni <
>>>>>>>> setient at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I heard that it is having some issues and
>most of
>>>>>>>> the people who
>>>>>>>> were
>>>>>>>> involved with it this. I also just saw a
>message
>>>>>>>> about the
>>>>>>>> next_meeting.py that ran on it which is no
>longer
>>>>>>>> running. Is
>>>>>>>> there any
>>>>>>>> assistance needed getting it stable?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Ronald Cotoni Systems Engineer
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>> Ronald Cotoni
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>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Ronald Cotoni
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