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Of the Love of Oldtimers - Dusting Off a Sun Fire V1280 Server

Posted by Unknown on from the mine-bitcoins-while-heating-your-home dept.

vikingpower writes "Today, I decided to acquire a refurbished Sun Fire V1280 server, with 8 CPUs. The machine will soon or may already belong to a certain history of computing. This project is not about high-performance computing, much more about lovingly dusting off and maintaining a piece of hardware considered quirky by 2013 standards. And Now the question creeps to mind: what software would Slashdotters run on such a beast, once it is upgraded to 12 procs and, say, 24 GiB of RAM ?"

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  1. shutdown -h now by blang · · Score: 1, Redundant

    global warming, man.
    But if you insist on running somethnig, dtrace is a wonderful thing,
    or extract all of /proc/ every minute and stick into rrd.
    make 12 solaris containers all monitoring each other.

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    -- Another senseless waste of fine bytes.
    1. Re:shutdown -h now by foniksonik · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Maybe he can use it for carbon credits. If he promises not to also run and/or buy a new computer for the next ten tears or so. Otherwise it's definitely going to use up energy that would not have been used.

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      A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.