[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Mark Atherton]

The blades are HS12

At 03:27 p.m. 8/01/2014, Mark Beckett wrote:
>Got a model number
>
>Mark
>
>Mark Atherton 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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