Yeah, I know it can be a pain in the ass; I just would have thought that an organization the size of UNC would have netadmins capable of doing it themselves instead of having to call in a vendor to hold their hands.
We ARE talking about the same organization that walled the server up in the first place!:-)
...but I haven't had to resort to any third party HSF units for any of the AMD systems I've built so far.
I find the stock HSFs to be more than enough to keep all of my systems running within normal temps, and they're not as noisy as some (most) aftermarket fans.
Sounds like you've got some bad air flow management going on in your cases. That's the only time I've ever seen an AMD proc with stock HSF run hot.
Everyone's mileage will vary. I think if AMD takes a hard stand against processor abuse, it'll ultimately drive down their prices.
The design spec allows for a maximum of around 80W, but the current Opteron processors seem to use around 40W.
Someone from Newisys was quoted saying these figures. They also said they were showing off the 1U systems to customers, and allowing them to touch the heatsinks which were only slightly warmer than ambient temp.
Most of the time when you see something that's diesel powered spewing all kinds of black smoke it's because someone's turned up the fuel delivery for more power.
A properly maintained diesel engine will puff black smoke when accelerating under a pretty good load, but it shouldn't be sustained.
My diesel engine in my K5 does not blow tons of smoke unless I stand on the accelerator from a dead stop. Even then, once I reach 30mph, it doesn't smoke unless I redline the engine (running way outside of it's efficient RPM range).
Don't forget, gasoline engines can smoke just as bad as diesel engines.
Yup. My current daily driver is an unmodified '84 K5 Blazer 4x4 with the GM 6.2L NA diesel. On the highway it will average around 27MPG, with 30MPG peak average for extended trips.
I drive 160 miles a day for my daily commute (round trip, all highway miles), and can go a week on one tank (31 gallons).
Compare that with any new SUV or light truck. I know I'm happy with my beat up K5!
To save myself even more $$$, I'm going to try and buy a used Chevy Sprint this weekend. Should be in the 50MPG range, and this car's not even fuel injected!
No, radical thinking is designing a new automotive platform that doesn't require redesigning communities to continue with your way of life, and eliminates fossil fuels for power.
Neither the Honda or Toyota vehicles accomplish this. You're still using fossil fuels, and still polluting (although not even remotely as much as some of the cars and trucks you can buy new today).
Also, this article was about a hydrogen powered concept vehicle, not about gasoline/electric hybrids.
I applaud Honda and Toyota for their work with the new hybrid cars. I will more than likely purchase a hybrid when it comes time for a new vehicle. But they won't get me off of fossil fuels, just make me more efficient.
Hey, don't feel guilty about ONLY getting 27mpg. You drive a car you like, and it doesn't do bad for fuel economy.
There will be a day where you can drive a fun car that can get 50+mpg. And then people will be bitching about your gas guzzler, and wonder why you don't drive a fuel cell powered vehicle. Hehehehe!
Sure the 4 Wheel Drive has its place but its not in the inner city or Suburbs.
Tell that to the dozen or so people I've pulled out of a ditch/median/parking lot this winter so far around Chicago.
I don't drive my truck as a status symbol. I drive it because it gets 30mpg on the highway, has excellent clearance, decent cargo capacity for my job, has 4x4 for when I (or YOU) need it to be there, and only cost me $2500 last summer.
I bought an OLD truck because they're not crap like some of the new stuff you see on dealer lots these days. I can work on it. I can spend the money I save from working on it myself on improving my fuel economy with better parts and better/more frequent maintenance. I do give a damn about the environment, which is why I bought a used truck instead of a new one, and keep it in the best shape I possibly can.
Wow... Your car has worse fuel economy than my '84 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 4x4 (diesel). I get anywhere from 25-30mpg on the highway, and I rarely drop below 20mpg during a week of nothing but city traffic.
In all seriousness, why the hell can't we have Subarus that get 40mpg, and still have AWD? I just bought a 2002 Olds Silhouette GLS that has AWD, and I get the same mileage as your Subaru. It has way more room inside, and could definately tow more. It won't win an autocross, though.
What's my next car going to be? A Honda Insight, if I can afford to buy one new. If you want to talk economy and low environmental impact, that's your only real option. An old diesel VW Rabbit gets roughly the same milage as a Prius or the Civic Hybrid, and I'd take a clean burning diesel over a gas engine any day of the week.
I'm perfectly happy with my SiS equipped motherboard (ECS K7S5A). I've had no issues with it, or the chipset, and I've run all kinds of operating systems and software on this machine.
I even went out and bought a $30 SiS AGP video card (SiS 315 chipset, 64Megs onboard) that works great for the MechWarrior 4 series of games, the Delta Force series of games, Empire Earth, etc. I typically play with high graphics detail at 1024x768 (all I have is a 17" monitor at the moment, anything higher is wasted on this POS). I get decent frame rates.
I spent less than $100 for both the motherboard and the video card, and I've been extremely pleased with the performance and the stability of my system.
I'd definately recommend SiS based hardware to anyone. I'll never buy another VIA based motherboard again.
Gotta have my games. Empire Earth, Mechwarrior, MechCommander, Delta Force, etc.
I use Linux everywhere at work and at home. All of my systems are either strictly Linux or at least dual-boot. I won't give up Windows until there's a decent amount of games I can live with for Linux.
Except a friend and I did repair work on a hard drive in a dorm room. We did some stuff we figured would help filter the air, cleaned all of the tools we were going to use, and fixed a frozen bearing in a hard drive.
Ran fine after that, no bad sectors.
Of course, this doesn't mean that one will be this lucky every time you break the seal on a hard drive!
Yeah... did all of that (bad block checking, swapped in new drives, yadda). All drives are 100% functional.
It's not the controllers, it's not the cables. These drives all ran EXT2 just fine for months. EXT3 just can't handle the amount of data we're mashing through this machine.
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We ARE talking about the same organization that walled the server up in the first place!
Shut off your computer at night.
...but I haven't had to resort to any third party HSF units for any of the AMD systems I've built so far.
I find the stock HSFs to be more than enough to keep all of my systems running within normal temps, and they're not as noisy as some (most) aftermarket fans.
Sounds like you've got some bad air flow management going on in your cases. That's the only time I've ever seen an AMD proc with stock HSF run hot.
Everyone's mileage will vary. I think if AMD takes a hard stand against processor abuse, it'll ultimately drive down their prices.
Compute responsibly.
...with no NUMA support. Means it wasn't using the memory controllers optimally (only one channel used instead of two).
Tom's review was laughable at best.
The design spec allows for a maximum of around 80W, but the current Opteron processors seem to use around 40W.
Someone from Newisys was quoted saying these figures. They also said they were showing off the 1U systems to customers, and allowing them to touch the heatsinks which were only slightly warmer than ambient temp.
Most of the time when you see something that's diesel powered spewing all kinds of black smoke it's because someone's turned up the fuel delivery for more power.
A properly maintained diesel engine will puff black smoke when accelerating under a pretty good load, but it shouldn't be sustained.
My diesel engine in my K5 does not blow tons of smoke unless I stand on the accelerator from a dead stop. Even then, once I reach 30mph, it doesn't smoke unless I redline the engine (running way outside of it's efficient RPM range).
Don't forget, gasoline engines can smoke just as bad as diesel engines.
Yup. My current daily driver is an unmodified '84 K5 Blazer 4x4 with the GM 6.2L NA diesel. On the highway it will average around 27MPG, with 30MPG peak average for extended trips.
I drive 160 miles a day for my daily commute (round trip, all highway miles), and can go a week on one tank (31 gallons).
Compare that with any new SUV or light truck. I know I'm happy with my beat up K5!
To save myself even more $$$, I'm going to try and buy a used Chevy Sprint this weekend. Should be in the 50MPG range, and this car's not even fuel injected!
Can you make your 2nd amendment right take the 5th?
No, radical thinking is designing a new automotive platform that doesn't require redesigning communities to continue with your way of life, and eliminates fossil fuels for power.
Neither the Honda or Toyota vehicles accomplish this. You're still using fossil fuels, and still polluting (although not even remotely as much as some of the cars and trucks you can buy new today).
Also, this article was about a hydrogen powered concept vehicle, not about gasoline/electric hybrids.
I applaud Honda and Toyota for their work with the new hybrid cars. I will more than likely purchase a hybrid when it comes time for a new vehicle. But they won't get me off of fossil fuels, just make me more efficient.
Well, I do own a minivan in addition to my truck. So that is an option.
But going 700+ miles non-stop in my truck on long drives is a nice bonus for me (31 gallon tank).
And if I go to visit my friends in Colorado, just getting to the base camp is one hell of a trek in itself... The minivan wouldn't make it.
Hey, don't feel guilty about ONLY getting 27mpg. You drive a car you like, and it doesn't do bad for fuel economy.
There will be a day where you can drive a fun car that can get 50+mpg. And then people will be bitching about your gas guzzler, and wonder why you don't drive a fuel cell powered vehicle. Hehehehe!
I'd rather drive to Colorado from Chicago than hike there. I can hike all I want once I'm there.
Tell that to the dozen or so people I've pulled out of a ditch/median/parking lot this winter so far around Chicago.
I don't drive my truck as a status symbol. I drive it because it gets 30mpg on the highway, has excellent clearance, decent cargo capacity for my job, has 4x4 for when I (or YOU) need it to be there, and only cost me $2500 last summer.
I bought an OLD truck because they're not crap like some of the new stuff you see on dealer lots these days. I can work on it. I can spend the money I save from working on it myself on improving my fuel economy with better parts and better/more frequent maintenance. I do give a damn about the environment, which is why I bought a used truck instead of a new one, and keep it in the best shape I possibly can.
Wow... Your car has worse fuel economy than my '84 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 4x4 (diesel). I get anywhere from 25-30mpg on the highway, and I rarely drop below 20mpg during a week of nothing but city traffic.
In all seriousness, why the hell can't we have Subarus that get 40mpg, and still have AWD? I just bought a 2002 Olds Silhouette GLS that has AWD, and I get the same mileage as your Subaru. It has way more room inside, and could definately tow more. It won't win an autocross, though.
What's my next car going to be? A Honda Insight, if I can afford to buy one new. If you want to talk economy and low environmental impact, that's your only real option. An old diesel VW Rabbit gets roughly the same milage as a Prius or the Civic Hybrid, and I'd take a clean burning diesel over a gas engine any day of the week.
Is the Honda Insight a hydrogen powered vehicle? No.
Is the Honday Civic hybrid a hydrogen powered vehicle? No.
What exactly was your point again?
I'm perfectly happy with my SiS equipped motherboard (ECS K7S5A). I've had no issues with it, or the chipset, and I've run all kinds of operating systems and software on this machine.
I even went out and bought a $30 SiS AGP video card (SiS 315 chipset, 64Megs onboard) that works great for the MechWarrior 4 series of games, the Delta Force series of games, Empire Earth, etc. I typically play with high graphics detail at 1024x768 (all I have is a 17" monitor at the moment, anything higher is wasted on this POS). I get decent frame rates.
I spent less than $100 for both the motherboard and the video card, and I've been extremely pleased with the performance and the stability of my system.
I'd definately recommend SiS based hardware to anyone. I'll never buy another VIA based motherboard again.
I have a GBA. The games I play under Windows aren't games I can play on the GBA.
Gotta have my games. Empire Earth, Mechwarrior, MechCommander, Delta Force, etc.
I use Linux everywhere at work and at home. All of my systems are either strictly Linux or at least dual-boot. I won't give up Windows until there's a decent amount of games I can live with for Linux.
Slashdot THIS!
;-P
http://papa.burningserver.org
I need to reload this machine anyways, so go ahead and nuke it. I'm interested in seeing what kind of traffic it can handle.
Except a friend and I did repair work on a hard drive in a dorm room. We did some stuff we figured would help filter the air, cleaned all of the tools we were going to use, and fixed a frozen bearing in a hard drive.
Ran fine after that, no bad sectors.
Of course, this doesn't mean that one will be this lucky every time you break the seal on a hard drive!
I downloaded the portable version of OpenSSH 3.4p1 pretty much as soon as it was released from ftp.openssh.com, and it's got the correct MD5 sum.
The timestamp on my copy of the openssh-3.4p1.tar.gz file is June 26th.
Anyone know when the trojan file was put in place?
...then you know the product is good, right? The vendor might be a moron, though.
Yeah... did all of that (bad block checking, swapped in new drives, yadda). All drives are 100% functional.
It's not the controllers, it's not the cables. These drives all ran EXT2 just fine for months. EXT3 just can't handle the amount of data we're mashing through this machine.
You'll need an ATA133 controller, or a RAID controller that can address drives beyond the current limitation of most ATA100 controllers.
Promise makes one, I'm sure. Maxtor 160gig drives are sometimes bundled with a controller.
I've installed a couple different drives with the fluid bearings, and they do run quieter than the older style bearings. Very nice!