The order is out the door and we expect to have the new machines in hand in 2 weeks.

We are getting two identical HP servers, each consisting of:

A Proliant DL180 G6 chassis with redundant power and fans.
The chassis has 12 drive bays and these are all populated with 1TB 3G SATA drives
2 Xeon quad core E5620 processors.
96GB RAM as 6x16GB DIMMs. This allows for doubling the memory while still using the original DIMMs.
An external (unpopulated) 12 bay drive cage. We may well need this for the science DB server (oscar).

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Thanks for the News Jeff...It is much appreciated.

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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott (Mod-Ret.)

Whoa! Nice Toy. :-) And two of them...


Helli

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A loooong time ago: First Credits after SETI@home Restart

Thanks for the update Jeff,

Claggy

Thanx Jeff:) Nice the boards are up already.

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The order is out the door and we expect to have the new machines in hand in 2 weeks.

We are getting two identical HP servers, each consisting of:

A Proliant DL180 G6 chassis with redundant power and fans.
The chassis has 12 drive bays and these are all populated with 1TB 3G SATA drives
2 Xeon quad core E5620 processors.
96GB RAM as 6x16GB DIMMs. This allows for doubling the memory while still using the original DIMMs.
An external (unpopulated) 12 bay drive cage. We may well need this for the science DB server (oscar).

Well, I've been told that twins (especially identical) are a lot more fun.
Sure hope so.

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Have you guys moved your cots and sleeping bags in yet? Having those toys to play with I can't see you wanting to leave the lab! :-)

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PROUD MEMBER OF Team Starfire World BOINC

I'm looking forward to crunching a lot of seti units !!!

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On ne peut voir au-delà des choix qu'on ne comprend pas.

Don't forget the red safety belts :-))

That's a nice pair to have sitting in the closet.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Thank you Jeff, you satisfied my inner(?) geek

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Janice

Have you guys moved your cots and sleeping bags in yet? Having those toys to play with I can't see you wanting to leave the lab! :-)

Fix:
I don't want to see you leaving the lab! ;)

:D

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But can they play Fallout: New Vegas? Or Crysis 2? ;-)

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hi there i am proberly talking rubbish but i thought AMD servers where better on a performance per $ is this true ????

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hi there i am proberly talking rubbish but i thought AMD servers where better on a performance per $ is this true ????

My own experiences tell me that is true on paper. Not for my actual experience.
Intel is also by my experiences more reliable, more forgiving of "abuse"(heat/dust/etc).

This is my own experience, and people can argue all day about it. But the lab is ordering what they think they need. And I have to say they are the subject matter experts.

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Janice

Thanks for the update. 16GB DIMMs ~ $1200.00USD a piece.

Zounds!

So what kind of hard drives are we talking about specifically?

Exactness might get one drop shipped from Newegg.

Just did a quick configure on HP's site and the the cost (per server) comes out to roughly $15,778. Were you guys able to talk them in to a discount at all?

The hard drives are listed in the configurator as "HP 1TB 3G SATA 7.2K Hot Plug 3.5 MDL Hard Drive." Look for something along those lines if you'd like.

And for those wondering, HP made server machines long before they bought Compaq. Check out the old HP Vectra's, 9000/800 Series, or the 3000 Series (if you don't mind counting a "terminal" server; an HP 3000/950 cost $305,000 in 1987).

Justin

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But can they play Fallout: New Vegas? Or Crysis 2? ;-)

Ha!!

As far as I can tell NOTHING can play Fallout New Vegas properly :-)

My company uses a lot of the HP Proliant M370's, DL140, etc. Good machines.

Will be worth waiting for.

Bernie

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Just did a quick configure on HP's site and the the cost (per server) comes out to roughly $15,778. Were you guys able to talk them in to a discount at all?

The hard drives are listed in the configurator as "HP 1TB 3G SATA 7.2K Hot Plug 3.5 MDL Hard Drive." Look for something along those lines if you'd like.

And for those wondering, HP made server machines long before they bought Compaq. Check out the old HP Vectra's, 9000/800 Series, or the 3000 Series (if you don't mind counting a "terminal" server; an HP 3000/950 cost $305,000 in 1987).

Justin

Can't remember which thread I saw it in, but yes, it has been said that they got a significant discount. I should think a quick mention on the website and listing in the server status page that they are HP Proliants should do the trick with a bit of a thank you...

Giz.

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But can they play Fallout: New Vegas? Or Crysis 2? ;-)

Ha!!

As far as I can tell NOTHING can play Fallout New Vegas properly :-)

You're right!
The amount of times I've been reset to desktop for doing nothing particular in the game (move mouse, press space bar, click E (for interaction)) go farther than the amount of fingers I have total. ;-)

The patch didn't help me.

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I believe I remember seeing 20% as the discount? $15,778 * 0.8 = $12,622.40, which I believe is approx what the 2 server fundraisers brought in.

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