[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Chris Hellyar]

Mosix cluster?

A lifetime ago when command-line Seti was a real thing I had a cluster 
race with someone using a large number of PC's at my work over Xmas 
running Mosix from floppy boot disks.  Much geeky fun.

Cheers, Chris H.

On 08/01/14 14:49, 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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