[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Jasper Mackenzie]

Let's just give it a go!
Sounds perfect for solving simple optimization problems 8)
This thing sounds crazy, is it a have to  see it to believe it jobbie?
On Jan 8, 2014 2:50 PM, "Mark Atherton" <markaren1 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been looking at a rather large and very noisy, and very very power
> hungry blade server made by IBM around 2005.
>
> 24 x (1G RAM, 74G HD, 3G Xeon processor -- HS12), with 4 PSUs, each
> capable of 2kW
>
> As well as console and quad NIC, there are several other interesting plug
> in cards on the frame.
>
> I am probably being wildly optimistic that it might be possible to run and
> open source Linux x 24 on this beast without having to take a small
> percentage of a lifetime to learn the pre-requisites.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with such a setup before it goes to meet
> it's maker ?
>
> -Mark
>
>
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