[ale] [OT] wanna build your own cluster?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu May 26 07:56:34 EDT 2016


I think you'll need at least 4 of these :-)

Seriously, poke around ebay for some older supermicro or dell gear. Most
have dual nics and thus make great firewalls. At $150 or so, having a
standard box makes for relatively easy setup. There are some half length
supermicro boxes around that are barely larger than a rack mount switch.
On May 26, 2016 1:59 AM, "dev null zero two" <dev.null.02 at gmail.com> wrote:

> thinking about setting up pfsense for my adsl line and two computers at
> home, will this be enough?
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
> On May 26, 2016 12:12 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes - you will lose your hearing sitting next to these.
>> Yes - you will want a rack.
>> Yes - your power bill will go up.
>> Yes - you _do_ want to do this!
>> No - the S.O. will NOT approve (without serious additional chores on your
>> part - unless they are TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!)
>>
>>
>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-Altix-xe310-SuperMicro-Twin1U-Server-2x-X7DGT-INF-4x-Xeon-X5355-2-66GHz-32GB/111974515331?_trksid=p2054502.c100229.m3211&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D36694%26meid%3Dd9955a373b914fb5b9888611c5152c3c%26pid%3D100229%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D13%26sd%3D231826974721
>>
>> NOTE: these _do_ have 20G Infinniband!
>>
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>>
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>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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