Building the team a seti farm.

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 4:49 pm

So there has been talk of building some seti farms and I figured I would stick there here so we could keep track of it.

For this to work we will need the following.

People willing to donate space and electricity to running the farm(s).

People willing to donate CPU's, motherboards, ram, power supplies, video cards, network cards, hard drives or floppy drives, network cables, hubs, and asorted other bits that may be needed.

It would probably be better if the people who are donating space and electricity cordnated with the people donating stuff via the message board so no one gets confused.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:37 pm

okie

i am the main person who is willing to donate the space and electricity for the seti farm/stack for bp6.com

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:39 pm

i have the following available equipment to start with

2 12 port 10BT hubs
1 4 port switch w/ cable/dsl routing
1 cable modem
2 bp6 motherboards
4 celeron 500mhz cpu's
tons of space
cases and materials to build the farm/stack

the time and patience to make it all work

Post by **Derek** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 12:03 am

Excellent idea! I'm all for it.

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 5:16 am

I could/do have the following crunching for the team :-

BP6 with 2 x 500 Celeron

D6VAA with 2 x 500 P3 (this board recently died and I am looking for a replacement)

VP6 with 2 x 700 P3 (this board works but is unstable due to needing the caps changing)

Tyan Board with 2 x 2.4Ghz 533 HT P4 Xeons

As you can see I need to do some work to two of the machines.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 11:09 am

24seven wrote:Tyan Board with 2 x 2.4Ghz 533 HT P4 Xeons

This one most be a real cruncher!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 1:28 pm

hypespace...

dude...

you have NO idea

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:21 pm

hyperspace wrote:
24seven wrote:Tyan Board with 2 x 2.4Ghz 533 HT P4 Xeons
This one most be a real cruncher!

Yeah its doing well

Only built it up two days ago.

Its taking about 4 hours per unit, but every 4 hours it does 4 which = 1 per hour.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:56 pm

24seven wrote:
hyperspace wrote:
24seven wrote:Tyan Board with 2 x 2.4Ghz 533 HT P4 Xeons
This one most be a real cruncher!
Yeah its doing well

Only built it up two days ago.

Its taking about 4 hours per unit, but every 4 hours it does 4 which = 1 per hour.

Gotta Love HT!

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:29 pm

ht owns

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 6:52 pm

ok update

i'v now got the wood and screws and the power tools (drool) to build the seti stack

im going to try and slowly pick up a few ECS k7s5a pro v5.0 mobo's and some durons (athlon xp 2400's if they are cheap enough) to add to the stack

i've got a k62350 mobo and cpu that i can use to add to the stack.. not much but it'll help

i'll get the $25 worth of caps to replace the leaking ones as soon as i can

im going to get a programmer friend of mine to help me create a server (which will probably be the SCSI server BP6 i have now) and some software to run each mobo to run cmd line's andsuch

what i will need

any old video cards (anything that works) wheter it be 1mb tridents or whatever, i have an old 2mb trident and my old ATI rage pro pci video card i can use atm

floppy drives

ATX power supplies as little as 100-200 watt

maybe a few NIC's

some 80mm case fans

and some heatsinks+fans (any that will fit s370 or socket a will do fine)

now..

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Mon Oct 13, 2003 4:47 am

If you are interested there are some quick pictures I took of the system as it is at the moment.
http://david.bp6.com/pics/xeon/

I’m planing on putting it in a case with better ventilation as it gets fairly hot in that case with the side on.

There is also pictures of the old motherboards the dead D6VAA and a working but unstable VP6.

http://david.bp6.com/pics/dead_boards/

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 9:34 pm

Kunn I may have a bunch of crap, I mean valuable computer parts, to send you. I am moving monday so after I get setteled in and sort through what I have I may box it up. Looking around I see a Asus P2B and an Asus P2V that could use a home. Both slot 1 boards of some kind.

I actually got a job with Oki Data so I may actually be building a rack of my own in a few months but until then I will send you crap I have around here.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:42 am

ok cool

sounds great

got the wooden rack started (it'll be a slow project until i get an actual motovation to build to house something)

just let me know if you want help with shipping (i will try.. we're strapping for cash lately but i will do what i can)

uallas5 · Post by **uallas5** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 12:38 am

HAL,

Congrats on the new job. I hope it works out well for you.

Kunn,

Email me your address, I've got some stuff to send ya. I'm still figuring it out but so far 3 PCI Video cards, 2 floppy drives, and some "working" 4Gb IDE drives if you want em. Let me know.

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:09 am

BUMP!

Any news on this Kuun?
Have you started yet, or is it still in the planning stages?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:08 am

still got to grab a few power supplies

the rack is built but i haven't put anything in it yet

if uallas5 sends some drives and video cards i'll be ready to go

HAL6000 · Post by **HAL6000** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:34 am

I have a bunch of crap, erm... i mean stuff!, that I will send you once I 1. Find it. 2. Find somewhere to ship it from.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 12:30 am

ok let me know when your ready

i'll email you my address

if you need help with shipping i'll chip in

soon as al lthis stuff arrives things will start to happen

uallas5 · Post by **uallas5** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 10:19 am

Kuun,

Sorry bout the delay but the stuff ships out today UPS ground. I'll email you the tracking number.

It's 4 PCI video cards, 2 floppy's, 3 old (but working) IDE drives, a handful of IDE & Floppy cables, and 3 NIC's. The NIC's are 10baseT ISA but you should be able to use them if they're not too tall for your rack.

Hope this helps.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:23 pm

Kuun,

Will be going through my stuff this weekend. Not sure what I have at this point.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:37 am

ok does "LSI" mean anything to anyone?

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:42 am

ok uallas5

it was you

please put a name in or on the box somewhere wo i know who it's from.. so i know who to notify that i recieved the stuff

i got 3 Nic's 4 video cards 2 floppies some cables 2 HSF's and 2 HDD's

i didn't get 3 but i got 2 a 6.4GB and a 4.3GB

thanks for the hardware.. all i need now is to buy a couple more power supplies and i'll be ready to go..

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:59 am

look out seti here comes kuun!

Post by **Derek** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 4:10 pm

I suggest the BP6.Com Seti Farm run under its own SETI account so that we can keep track of it.

"BP6.Com SETI Machine" maybe?