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

[Lionel Peterson]

These are deployed in the many thousands when deployed...

One asset manager claims to have bought thousands of this servers (C6005) and
was looking for a custom BIOS for some reason...

They appear to be custom-built per customer.

Lionel

> On Feb 10, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Jonathan Groll <lists at groll.co.za> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:06:17 -0500, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Desk side is a euphemism for down the hall, in a server rack. I am not
foolish
>> enough to mean desk side literally. ;^)
>>
>> The actual power consumption is rated at about 285 watts/blade, and the
>> ability to spin the blades up or down as needed/desired I think it should
be
>> OK.
>>
>> It is my hope to consolidate down several white box 'servers' into this
one
>> chassis for non-production home lab use...
>
> Reading this, I became curious about what all of these white box
> 'servers' do. I mean, after basic network things like dns, 'gateway',
> file servers, vpn servers, web servers, what else do these machines
> 'do'?
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
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