Thread: sun blade 1000 donation
I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could finduse for it. Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel scsi disks. It weighs a ton. I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause. -Andy
Andy, > I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was > wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it. > > Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel > scsi disks. > > It weighs a ton. > > I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause. Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption. Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: > Andy, > >> I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was >> wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it. >> >> Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel >> scsi disks. >> >> It weighs a ton. >> >> I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause. > > Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our ability to > accept stuff which is large & high power consumption. > > Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for the > buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us. > Would you like an IPC instead? Though building PG on it might take longer than the average release cycle. ;) -- Mike Rylander| VP, Research and Design| Equinox Software, Inc. / The Evergreen Experts| phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)|email: miker@esilibrary.com| web: http://www.esilibrary.com
On Wed, 27 May 2009, andy wrote: > I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days...It weighs > a ton. Bah, I know I picked one of those up myself once, which means it's far from being what I'd consider a heavy server as Sun hardware goes. Specs say it's 70 pounds and pulls 670W. It's a tower form factor through, right? That would make it hard to install some places. -- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
Greg Smith wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009, andy wrote: > >> I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days...It >> weighs a ton. > > Bah, I know I picked one of those up myself once, which means it's far > from being what I'd consider a heavy server as Sun hardware goes. Specs > say it's 70 pounds and pulls 670W. It's a tower form factor through, > right? That would make it hard to install some places. > > -- > * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD > Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower, yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load) -Andy
On 05/27/09 22:00, Josh Berkus wrote: > Andy, > >> I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was >> wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it. >> >> Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel >> scsi disks. >> >> It weighs a ton. >> >> I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause. > > Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our > ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption. > > Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it > for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us. > Actually I think you can use cutting edge OpenSolaris 2009.06 release (which will happen in less than a week) for SPARC on that hardware. I haven't tried it out on Sun Blade 1000/2000 yet but in theory you can. Refer to the following thread http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-February/014134.html Though you will need an Automated Installer setup to install OpenSolaris on SPARC http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/index.html Regards, Jignesh
Jignesh K. Shah wrote: > > > On 05/27/09 22:00, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Andy, >> >>> I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was >>> wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it. >>> >>> Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel >>> scsi disks. >>> >>> It weighs a ton. >>> >>> I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause. >> >> Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our >> ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption. >> >> Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it >> for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us. >> > > Actually I think you can use cutting edge OpenSolaris 2009.06 release > (which will happen in less than a week) for SPARC on that hardware. I > haven't tried it out on Sun Blade 1000/2000 yet but in theory you can. > Refer to the following thread > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-February/014134.html > > > Though you will need an Automated Installer setup to install OpenSolaris > on SPARC > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/index.html > > > Regards, > Jignesh > > Well that could be fun to play with. I have snv_99 on there now, so I'm not too outdated. The two drives are in a zfs mirror and as long as you use both processors its a pretty snappy box. (gmake vs gmake -j 4 is noticeably faster) But still.. I'm buying a new computer and need to clear out some of the old one's first. (I took a count, and I have about 11 computers, counting anything I can ssh to or run apache on as a computer (so my gf's iTouch counts as a computer)) -Andy
Greg Smith wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2009, Andy Colson wrote: > >> Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower, >> yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is >> limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may >> not be out of the ordinary). > > To give you a better idea of the scale people were thinking with your > original comment, the last Sun server I installed was 170 pounds and you > had to provision a dedicated power outlet for it. The Blade 1000 would > be considered a medium sized server. A small server is one that fits in > 1 to 3 rack units. > > -- > * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD Sweet. That sounds fun to play on. So yeah, as I was saying before, its a 75lb box, nothing huge.. ya know... average... :-) -Andy
Andy, > Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower, > yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is > limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not > be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was > near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that > correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load) Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it (our donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for this machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com
Josh Berkus wrote: > Andy, > >> Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower, >> yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is >> limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not >> be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was >> near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that >> correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load) > > Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is > still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it (our > donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for this > machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else? > I'll plug it in tonight when I get home and verify those numbers. It looks like there are a bunch of sparc build farm members, would another really be helpful? -Andy
Andy Colson wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: >> Andy, >> >>> Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower, >>> yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is >>> limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not >>> be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was >>> near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that >>> correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load) >> >> Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is >> still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it >> (our donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for >> this machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else? >> > > I'll plug it in tonight when I get home and verify those numbers. > > It looks like there are a bunch of sparc build farm members, would > another really be helpful? > > -Andy > Yep, 300W both at idle and under load. -Andy