Bump, with update on amount of servers left and shipping.
The collected works of ramq - Page 3
Hey, it started if August, so you had the end of the summer to decide anyway.
Well, it looks like there's a high bidder on all four remaining systems (including L2 + NUMAlink router) at the moment, so I'll inform you others if there's a chance left.
Thanks for the clarification, Jan-jaap - and enjoy your new systems!
Please do make an own thread and be thorough, I think everyone wants to know.
As for the "MPX" versus "Expansion". Somewhere along the way there were confusing information from various sources, including SGI own docs, which made me use either of those two terms. However, with the specs included there ain't any doubt - these are Expansion Modules.
The four remaining modules are spoken for so if there's nothing that happens along the way, all things for sale are gone soon.
However, I have leads on other fun equipment - including HP RX2660 and HP AlphaServer DS15... hehe
Please do make an own thread and be thorough, I think everyone wants to know.
As for the "MPX" versus "Expansion". Somewhere along the way there were confusing information from various sources, including SGI own docs, which made me use either of those two terms. However, with the specs included there ain't any doubt - these are Expansion Modules.
The four remaining modules are spoken for so if there's nothing that happens along the way, all things for sale are gone soon.
However, I have leads on other fun equipment - including HP RX2660 and HP AlphaServer DS15... hehe
Sweet!
Or... I know how sweet they are.
Or... I know how sweet they are.
You have inconcistent amounts of cache on your CPU-boards. I demand that you immediately send the 8MB boards to me for exchange to standard 4MB variety.
Seriously, that's a very cool piece of hardware.
The possibilites... another two O350 bricks (and NUMAlink brick) with V12 boards and you have 4-to-1 pipe config and a buttload of graphics performance. Yum.
Seriously, that's a very cool piece of hardware.
The possibilites... another two O350 bricks (and NUMAlink brick) with V12 boards and you have 4-to-1 pipe config and a buttload of graphics performance. Yum.
Wonderful!
Pity they never made it until Rusti got my Prism.
I've got leads on an Altix though...
Pity they never made it until Rusti got my Prism.
I've got leads on an Altix though...
I've got an nicely configured AlphaServer DS15 collecting dust.
Other than that I'm running low on non-SGI stuff, if you don't calculate the Mac- and PC-stuff.
Other than that I'm running low on non-SGI stuff, if you don't calculate the Mac- and PC-stuff.
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recondas wrote:
BTW - Nice job on the O300 and Prism icons. Having stackable O300s will save some people quite a bit of <lateral> signature real estate.
Yes, definitly. Too bad I never got the chance to use the eight-brick icon (since two of them went for Holland), but at least I can manage six-brick icon just a few days longer. Then I'm down at two-brick.
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recondas wrote:
Following that logic <and the illustrations in TechPubs>, tall-rack installations of the
Altix 350 would have shipped in the slab-sided 39U rack
, while tall-rack installations of the
Altix 3000 would have shipped in 'wasp-waisted' 40U racks
. Altix 350 and
Altix 3000 Short-rack
configurations that shipped in an SGI rack would have shared the 17U slab-sided short rack.
I can verify the similarities with O350/3000 configurations. I got my 8-brick O350 out of the regular "thin" SGI rack, but the O3800 rack came in its usual "wide" style cabinet.
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Everything gone now.
Jan-jaap got the first two modules and I'll let the other taker reveal their christmas present themselves in another thread.
Jan-jaap got the first two modules and I'll let the other taker reveal their christmas present themselves in another thread.
PymbleSoftware wrote: ReadyNAS NV+ makes a nice little SMB/AFP/NFS box and gigabit too..
Speaking from own experience, neither one of the ReadyNAS products are anywhere near speedy.
Like, my SheevaPlug has GbE onboard, but it can't reach anywhere near 100MB/s with that poor little hardware...
Dr. Dave wrote: And this is why most 'NAS' products are deficient. Once you set up a real fileserver and go the NFS route, you really don't care. A little Atom board with gigabit and PCIE, and you're cooking. You just plug the USB mass storage device there and mount away remotely.
That's why I built my own 'NAS' at home primary to take care of Windows 7 backups (for the PeeCee) and Time Machine (for the iMac), backup all the photos and in the same time have a placeholder for all my movies.
Built out of a Chenbro ES34069 with a Intel Atom-based mini-ITX mobo (with sufficient amount of SATA-connectors) and 1GB of RAM it serves four 1.5TB WD15EARS drives in Linux MD RAID-5. Got both AFP, NFS and CIFS running on it so the data can be shared among all my hardware at home I can think of, even plays nicely datastore for VMware using NFS with the right parameters.
It's nowhere near a NetApp filer, but it's atleast 1/4th of the power requirements and does it's job.
£500 is not that unfair. People have sold/bought for about £400 on Nekochan, but with somewhat different specs.
Remember - Ian sells these for a living, and with a thing called 'warranty'.
What Dual-600 Octane on ebay for less money than 225 UKP offers warranty?
What Dual-600 Octane on ebay for less money than 225 UKP offers warranty?
mapesdhs wrote: I posted the above advert with huge discounts (typically half price) because for 2 weeks from the end of Nov I sold zilch due to the bad weather (I've done 32 hours of snow shoveling during that time ), ie. with the expense of xmas and the next rent day approaching, I needed to get some pennies in. And btw, one guy is indeed buying a PCI cage, so QED.
Sorry, but it seems that in your area your not used to having snow?
Where are the plowers and tractors?
I wouldn't feel confident in bringing it up in temperatures below zero. Nasty bits can happen when the system generates heat and what might get to be condensation...
Put an electrical heater in there to preheat the system before you turn it on. That way you can actually get that system to keep the temperature above zero in there.
Put an electrical heater in there to preheat the system before you turn it on. That way you can actually get that system to keep the temperature above zero in there.
Read the posts above.
(Perhaps Ian would be the one to shed some light on this, but there's probably others out there)
I was reading a bit on Wikipedia regarding nVidia Quadro series of graphics and stumbled upon this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro#History
That last sentence doesn't rule out completely that it was the same chips, just that they "used a completely different bus".
So, anyone know anything more regarding this? Is this really an Odyssey with AGP bus or am I'm dreaming?
How similar was those initial GeForce (256) and Quadro series? Or was it NV1-based chips that was crafted out of IR-based graphics genes?
Got this quote from a YouTube comment:
I was reading a bit on Wikipedia regarding nVidia Quadro series of graphics and stumbled upon this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_Quadro#History
In a settlement of a patent infringement lawsuit between SGI and NVIDIA, SGI acquired rights to speed binned NVIDIA graphics chips which they shipped under the VPro product label. These designs were completely separate from the SGI Odyssey based VPro products initially sold on their Irix workstations which used a completely different bus.
That last sentence doesn't rule out completely that it was the same chips, just that they "used a completely different bus".
So, anyone know anything more regarding this? Is this really an Odyssey with AGP bus or am I'm dreaming?
How similar was those initial GeForce (256) and Quadro series? Or was it NV1-based chips that was crafted out of IR-based graphics genes?
Got this quote from a YouTube comment:
I remember in 1996 when the SGI InfiniteReality was first demo'ed. Ten times the performance of RealityEngine2, and over 10 million texture-mapped polys a sec. On TV they showed a sweeping view of a mountain, it was jaw dropping. Years later, I read that Nvidia NV10 (GeForce 256) which was released in 1999, was designed by SGI's InfiniteReality team. They had joined Nvidia. Another group from SGI broke away to form ArtX. They designed GameCube's graphics then got bought by ATI.
Yes, while I do know most of the Odyssey graphics, I don't know anything about those (early) nVidia stuff... That is, very early GeForce and Quadro.
Since nVidia aquired most of the IR-folks and SGI at that time "teamed up" with nVidia, how much technology was transferred into (integrated) silicon as the first NV GPUs?
Since nVidia aquired most of the IR-folks and SGI at that time "teamed up" with nVidia, how much technology was transferred into (integrated) silicon as the first NV GPUs?
I had all those A|W boxes complete with software along with an O2 at one point a few years ago. Sold it off to someone here on Nekochan, if I remember correct.
Shipping option?
SAQ wrote: To bad Hamei's gone - it would be nice to see the inside scoop.
I'm sorry, gone? Did I miss something?
Systems consultant in IT - mainly in storage, hardware and virtualization.
sgifanatic wrote:ramq wrote: Systems consultant in IT - mainly in storage, hardware and virtualization.
That's interesting. I'm involved pretty heavily in virtualization also. Are you focused more on the server side or desktops (VDI)? Which Hypervisors do you typically employ?
Is there any other competitor than VMware?
No, seriously. Done large amounts of VMware ranging all the way back since 2.5 and touched Hyper-V in (very) small installations. I know only one customer running Xen. I mostly go for server virtualization and the biggest customer are running a couple of hundred virtual servers on NetApp storage via NFS.
Regarding VDI I have only done some (regular) VMware View installations, but the most interesting project was SunRay + VMware View.
Nice one.
I'm thinking of fitting a V10 to one of my O350s, but never got around doing it.
Since you have three of'em, did you follow the threads before regarding Vpro in O350 or did you come up with some new nifty solutions to make it just as close to a "factory" config as possible? I'm thinking cutting metal, replacing fans, etc...
I'm thinking of fitting a V10 to one of my O350s, but never got around doing it.
Since you have three of'em, did you follow the threads before regarding Vpro in O350 or did you come up with some new nifty solutions to make it just as close to a "factory" config as possible? I'm thinking cutting metal, replacing fans, etc...
Nice!
This is the very first time I've even seen an Onyx4 system, so this contribution is welcome!
This is the very first time I've even seen an Onyx4 system, so this contribution is welcome!
I know I've replaced firmware on Seagate drives using a Linux box. Maybe you could try that out?
Not that I know of any *new* 36GB drives with the same model/type number, nor quiet ones...
Not that I know of any *new* 36GB drives with the same model/type number, nor quiet ones...
Oh man... I just adore your spirit. Wow.
I have some spare fans for O350 back in storage, so hopefully I could shed some light on those part numbers in the near future.
Nicely done Pontus!
This could very well be an option for fried PSU's, but it would be awesome if one could work out the fan issue altogether and get a (much) quieter Fuel PSU.
Oh, about the VT320... I'll make sure to include a bunch of VT510/VT520's when you come collect the ES45's.
This could very well be an option for fried PSU's, but it would be awesome if one could work out the fan issue altogether and get a (much) quieter Fuel PSU.
Oh, about the VT320... I'll make sure to include a bunch of VT510/VT520's when you come collect the ES45's.
Uhm no. That's two racks right in the middle of that picture.
You guys are too nerdy to even see these things... sheesh!
You guys are too nerdy to even see these things... sheesh!
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I think I have a spare O350 power supply back in the garage. hmm...
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guardian452 wrote:
And sorry to say no matter how nice the car if it is more than a few years old the ballasts are not so good anymore. That is the progress of technology...
I'd disagree on that. It may be common on cheaper cars, but premium (or mid-premium) they are built to last. My BMW 740, which by the was sold this summer, had factory optional Xenon projector lights fitted and with a bulb replacement they were running as bright as my Mazda 6 which also have Xenon projection. And that beemer was manufactured 1995...
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The car I have now has basic halogen headlights but with projector housings and they are simply amazing. They are better than the prius xenon with reflector beam headlights, for sure. I haven't bothered upgrading the headlights to xenon (there is no trouble with beam pattern changing because of the projector housing) simply because the halogen light is great.
I see *much* better with xenon lightning and that's most often related to bulb temperature (color), but xenon looks more "intense" in the same way. Over here in europe I can't find any xenon-fitted car with reflector beams, so I guess I'm a little biased toward projector+xenon...
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In the US the self-levelling and turn-in headlights are optional as well regardless of the light source (xenon or tungsten)
Here in Sweden we have a law regarding cars with Xenon lights that force self-leveling to avoid blinding other drivers - no matter if it was factory fitted (like those who import JDM cars with original Xenon) or retrofitted. This makes retrofitting Xenon headlights illegal, unless you come up with and can prove a system that does the auto-leveling. Oh, and it needs to be "E"-marked as well...
But on the other hand they fully approve high-level beam conversions...
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Cool. This could mean that, with some proper reverse-engineering and a copy of the board, we could try to "SGI-alize" that Intel-spec PSU.
If that's successful there's that obvious step forward and go try the same "extra circuit board" trick on other power supply, ofcourse depending how deeply involved this little extra circuit board might be to the rest of the Sparkle PSU design.
To carry on dreaming - is this thing even bound to be inside the PSU? Can it be tricked to stay between PSU and motherboard connector?
Imagine a piggyback configuration made up of a short PSU extension connector cable and use regular ATX power supply. Fuel believe PSU fan is doing alright, while the PSU has its own fan environmental controlling. Oh, the possibilities... (Or maybe I'm on a crackpipe this morning)
If that's successful there's that obvious step forward and go try the same "extra circuit board" trick on other power supply, ofcourse depending how deeply involved this little extra circuit board might be to the rest of the Sparkle PSU design.
To carry on dreaming - is this thing even bound to be inside the PSU? Can it be tricked to stay between PSU and motherboard connector?
Imagine a piggyback configuration made up of a short PSU extension connector cable and use regular ATX power supply. Fuel believe PSU fan is doing alright, while the PSU has its own fan environmental controlling. Oh, the possibilities... (Or maybe I'm on a crackpipe this morning)
This is awesome news!
So in short, my original idea of a converter cable with some additional logic to fool the environmental monitoring wasn't that far off after all?
How generic can the PSU be? What are the ratings?
So in short, my original idea of a converter cable with some additional logic to fool the environmental monitoring wasn't that far off after all?
How generic can the PSU be? What are the ratings?
Cool.
Well actually what one would need is a list of all the voltage rails demands just to have a list to compare with.
I know all those ricer gamerguys always keep en eye out on spec numbers when they're shopping for power supplies, so the manufacturers seem to be pretty good at specifying amps.
Well actually what one would need is a list of all the voltage rails demands just to have a list to compare with.
I know all those ricer gamerguys always keep en eye out on spec numbers when they're shopping for power supplies, so the manufacturers seem to be pretty good at specifying amps.
Well, looking at whatever photos our fellow members has come up with, these might be useful:
A photo of the label/specifications of the NMB power supply used in the Fuel: download/file.php?id=2823084&mode=view
and the Sparkle power supply used in the Fuel: download/file.php?id=2822491&mode=view
Seems like the 430W PSU is alot beefier on the +3.3V rail.
FWIW, all Fuel PSUs I've seen so far has only been the 460W. Don't know what to judge by that, but there's two options:
A) Increased need for more juice on the +3.3V rail due to later design and customers beefing up their systems
B) Supply vs demand or simply "power effeciency"
Since we're probably never overload these systems I believe specs similar to the 460W PSU might suffice after all.
With that in mind I've come to this little table:
+3.3V 27.0A
+5V 29.0A
+12V I/O 15.0A
+12V CPU 16.5A
+5Vsb 2.0A
-12V 0.8A
A photo of the label/specifications of the NMB power supply used in the Fuel: download/file.php?id=2823084&mode=view
and the Sparkle power supply used in the Fuel: download/file.php?id=2822491&mode=view
Seems like the 430W PSU is alot beefier on the +3.3V rail.
FWIW, all Fuel PSUs I've seen so far has only been the 460W. Don't know what to judge by that, but there's two options:
A) Increased need for more juice on the +3.3V rail due to later design and customers beefing up their systems
B) Supply vs demand or simply "power effeciency"
Since we're probably never overload these systems I believe specs similar to the 460W PSU might suffice after all.
With that in mind I've come to this little table:
+3.3V 27.0A
+5V 29.0A
+12V I/O 15.0A
+12V CPU 16.5A
+5Vsb 2.0A
-12V 0.8A
Sad to hear, Harry. Really.
My only hope is that you keep at least one little system hidden somewhere deep enough for you to bring back into life when things get boring after a year or so.
My only hope is that you keep at least one little system hidden somewhere deep enough for you to bring back into life when things get boring after a year or so.
This is my second run of memory modules:
2GB-kits, gone .
Each kits consist of two 1GB Premium RAM modules, SGI p/n 030-1060-003.
I'm not sure how many I can spare at the moment, but it's atleast three of them. (Probably more once I've tested them)
Shipping:
Each kit weighs 160grams minus any protective packaging - so all these kits together would probably never weigh more than 1kg total, including packaging. Just to give a rought shipping estimate, Swedish postal office quotes $40 for 1kg worldwide package and somewhat lower rates using worldwide letter.
2GB-kits, gone .
Each kits consist of two 1GB Premium RAM modules, SGI p/n 030-1060-003.
I'm not sure how many I can spare at the moment, but it's atleast three of them. (Probably more once I've tested them)
Shipping:
Each kit weighs 160grams minus any protective packaging - so all these kits together would probably never weigh more than 1kg total, including packaging. Just to give a rought shipping estimate, Swedish postal office quotes $40 for 1kg worldwide package and somewhat lower rates using worldwide letter.