[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Wed 08 Jan 2014 14:49:49 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:

> 24 x (1G RAM, 74G HD, 3G Xeon processor -- HS12), with 4 PSUs, each
> capable of 2kW

That's 8kW. How are you planning to connect that up in your house?
Charles' response gets the cake!

Let's say it actually draws 1kW. That's 24h * 365 days = 8760 kWh per
year, plus the inconvenience of constant ear plugs. Given this kit is 8+
years old you are truely looking at a historic piece of current-day
junk. For this money you can by a pile of small-case PCs with more
computing power and a fraction of the electricity demand. They're also
faster to install Linux on, if time is of concern to you. Unfortuantely
the geek factor and especially the crazy factor are not nearly as high.

So you take your preferred pick.

You can bring it to the next meeting and we can all say a ceremonial
good-bye to it if that makes you feel better. Community support,
spiritual connectedness to ancestry and such. However in the interest of
eco-friendlyness please do not dispose of it at Molten Media.

Volker

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