[geeks] Cluster in a box? Interesting item on offer at eBay

[Patrick Finnegan]

The down side of course, is that it runs really hot (with all 4 servers,
that'd be probably 1200W+ in 2U) and, since it's hot, also probably pretty
loud.  Not ideal for a home situation.  I played with one for a bit at work
as a demo unit.  It wasn't too bad as far as dense (2 systems in 1U)
systems go in an HPC datacenter though, at least on par with the HP SL6500
stuff that we have a lot of at work.

Of course, the BladeCenter H in my basement is currently off partly because
it runs too loud as well. :(

I'll be interested to see what you think of running it "deskside" at home
is like.

Pat


On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, exactly.
>
> Each blade has an iKVM port, allowing you to remote into each blade, or you
> can hard wire a conventional KVM to each blade.
>
> It is a blade chassis - it's 2U chassis holds 4 blades, each blade has a
> hard
> wire access to three hot-swap trays.
>
> What makes this nice (IMHO) is it is a 'home lab-friendly' size/scale, and
> can
> be run off conventional 110V, most blade chassis I've seen (not that many)
> typically require 220V and are scaled for a dozen or two blades.
>
> Mine should be arriving today... Should be fun to play with...
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > This is basically the equivalent of a blade chassis, only made to be
> > cheaper (no shared kvm, no ethernet or other switch, etc).  It's the same
> > density as eg, IBM's BladeCenter H (14 @ 2 socket servers in 7U).
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