I’M SORRY, WHAT? I CAN’T HEAR YOU! MY EARS HAVE EXPLODED (with delight, naturally).
It’s Friday, so hopefully I can get away with it. :) On 10 Jan 2014, at 12:49 pm, Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh wow.. I think I worked with those for a period, some years back. > Powering one up in the office (to get an idea about what'd be required > for an initial rack install) was a quick way to become > least-popular-person-ever. It was a lot of computing power in a small > amount of space, but a bit confronting to run up. > > On 10 January 2014 08:25, Avi Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hey kids, >> >> I have an IBM BladeCenter chassis with 10 working (and 1 non-working) blades >> that is taking up space in my house. The chassis works great, and has both >> gigabit ethernet and fibre channel connectivity. The 10 working blades are >> mostly HS21s with dual-sockets and anywhere from 2GB - 8GB of memory (from >> memory). There is also an 11th blade I could never get to work, but could be >> used for parts, I guess. >> >> I’m happy to give the entire lot to anyone who’s willing to come pick it up >> from my house in Melbourne. :) >> >> Caveats: this thing is large. Like 5RU or 6RU or something. It’s also >> massively heavy. Fully loaded, it’s probably 60kgs+ or so. It requires 15A >> power (cables not included) and has four PSUs, so you need significant power >> supply (though it’ll run with only 2 connected). And finally, it’s >> stupendously loud. Like imaging an A380 landing about 10m away from you and >> then double it. This thing wouldn’t sit under someone’s desk. :) >> >> I’d prefer to give the whole lot away in one go, and I’d also prefer to give >> it to a non-profit or educational organisation, or anyone who is going to >> take hackvantage of it. I bought the whole lot for about $500 thinking I’d >> be able to do some virtualisation work with it, but the power requirements >> and noise just weren’t appropriate for a work-from-home environment. >> >> If this sound like something you’d like and you have a server >> room/basement/garden shed/bunker in which to store it, and some way of >> picking it up from an outer Northern suburb of Melbourne, please email me >> directly. >> >> NOTE: I can’t power the thing up any more, so please don’t ask specific >> questions about actual memory sizing or processors. I believe they’re Intel >> Xeon-esque processors. Each blade also has 2x internal HDDs. Essentially, >> you’re getting the lot for free, so think of it as a blade centre lucky dip! >> :) >> >> Email me off-list if you can take it off my hands. >> >> Cheers, >> Avi >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-main mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main > > > > -- > Turning and turning in the widening gyre > The falcon cannot hear the falconer > Things fall apart; the center cannot hold > Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
