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Hi guy's wanna give a little update,
my TyanTransport GX18 Barebone arrived about one month ago but till now i had no time to play with it.
Yesterday i installed the two sossaman cpu's (2GHz) put in the memory (4x2GB Nanya PC2-3200 ECC REG + 4x 2GB Kingston PC2-3200 ECC REG)
installed ESX 3.5 and tested with an virtual Server 2k8 R2.
But then i recognised that only 8GB of ram is used/recognised by the motherboard,
i tried different ways of arranging the rams without no success :(
the four Nanya's and the Kingston Ram's alone work fine but together the system boot's but only 8GB recognised.
Are there some limitations for using 8 dimm's`because they are all double sided?
May somebody can help me, thanks in forward.
Lil picture of the setup ;)
http://www.abload.de/thumb/dsc_0088knsw0.jpg
are the RAM ICs the same?Quote:
Originally Posted by fr3@k
oh & I doubt you ran WS08R2 :p: isn't that a 64-bit only OS? ;)
No the IC's are not the same (Nanya vs. Elpida)
Sry meant 2k8 non R2^^
IMO, I think its the fact that the IC's are not the same that is causing the problem :(Quote:
Originally Posted by fr3@k
I have WS08 running on my sossaman too! :D :up:
That's bad, my other 2GB PC2-3200 ECC REG Ram's have Qimonda IC's so i will have to get 4 DIMM's with Nanya or Elpida IC's.
Is your WS2k08 running virtually ?
I will use my sossaman rig as testsystem,
For 64bit OS i've an ex Cisco Ironport(Dell Poweredge 860) with ESXi 5.0
no, not virtually sorry! :/Quote:
Originally Posted by fr3@k
mine will hopefully become my cloud server soon! :)
Ah ok, which software will you use for your cloud?
If you want something like dropbox take a look at "owncloud"
owncloud I have :D ;) :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by fr3@k
Slightly OT but yesterday a box arrived with 6 sammy systems..Boards,cpu's,HS and memory: $100.00 for it all..:D
Biggest issue I have is finding cheap EATX mid tower cases..It's like they don't exist anymore unless you want to spend big money:(
which mobo/heatsinks? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
I chopped the HD bays out of an old ATX case for mine, then just mounted the HD in a 5.25" bay with an adapter bracket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
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Originally Posted by Movieman
whats a case? :D
you could just use some metal rods through the holes with nylon washers and some nuts to secure them in place and have a tower of sossys ;)
also - 6 systems for $100? Jealous!
Very Nice, we use OwnCloud in our company and we are very happy with it^^Quote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
6x Sossaman Systems for 100$? WTH!
Unfortunately for me, each crunching sammy I run adds at least $18/month to our power bill... so it has been a while since I've run any of my crunchers. I did manage to convince myself (and my wife :rolleyes: ) to give one of the sammys new life as a home multimedia (music/movies) server, fileserver (tinkering with OpenVPN as well, since I have people who need to be able to send me large files (e.g. 1080p video) to edit), and game server (I only have a Minecraft server running right now, but I'm considering experimenting with a Battlefield 1942 or Desert Combat server to see how many players the sammy can handle...since my connection (25Mbit/25Mbit) could easily handle a 64 player server).
Whee, photos:
http://www.petrastech.com/images/sam...er/topView.jpg
The wiring is a bit of a mess and, yeah, I built that silly duct thing to help cool the board and CPUs since I'm running the case fans (which look to be rebadged Yate Loon D12SL-12 fans) at 7V in an attempt to keep things somewhat quiet. That said, a system with six 120mm fans at 7V, two 80mm fans at 5V, one 40mm Sunon MagLev fan at 7V, and five hard drives isn't going to be all that quiet in the first place.
Here, you can see the boot drive mounted to the case crossbeam as well as the Dell PERC 5i/LSI MegaRAID 8480E RAID card that's connected to four 2TB Hitachi 7K3000 drives in RAID 5:
http://www.petrastech.com/images/sam.../hangDrive.jpg
The trouble is that the boot drive is kinda noisy given how it's attached, so I'm considering swapping it out for an SSD. Anyone have any experience with SSDs and these Baker Bay motherboards? It also doesn't help that the drive is painfully slow... but it was built for endurance, not speed so I can hardly fault it for that (Hitachi E7K100).
A couple photos of the silly duct...
http://www.petrastech.com/images/sammyServer/duct1.jpg
http://www.petrastech.com/images/sammyServer/duct2.jpg
And here it is slid into the "rack" that I put together out of a couple Ikea Lack tables:
http://www.petrastech.com/images/sam...r/rackedUp.jpg
From top to bottom: monitor and KVM (which I rarely use, since I can remote into everything anyway), gigabit ehternet switch, router (dual core Atom D525, 2GB RAM, Intel Pro1000 NICs, currently running Untangle... I might jump back to pfSense, though), Sammy server, and the UPS is on the floor. I still need to do some wire management :rolleyes:
I may sneak WCG onto it, but I'll have to do some testing (including power consumption change) first. At current load levels (not really more than about 5-10% CPU usage on the sammy most of the time), the "rack" of equipment (including a wall mounted wireless AP) with the monitor turned off pulls about 165W at the wall. Put another way, that's about $1/day... which is more than it costs to insure my car.
Once I can better offset the power costs, I'll start bringing everything back online again (including the i7s).
BWAH?!?! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
ok, I know this is back tracking a fair bit but.. when the handful of folks here with sossy's tried the bsel mod, did all of us try it on the Intel mobo? Or was there anyone who tried it with a diff mobo? :D
Just on the Intel MB that I'm aware off and it didn't work for me. I know what your thinking, "maybe on a different board" but no, chipsets are all the same between the Intel,tyan and SM boards unfortunately. I even tried a volt mod that Shamino sent me( God bless him! ) but it wouldn't work, wire from one point on the pll controller to the 3.3v point on the back of the board's 24 pin. Good thing is that when I pulled the wire the board still worked and still is 2 years later..:DQuote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
( You should have seen my old eyes working thru 25 power magnification to do that mod)..:rofl:
Give me one please :D
Ok I know this is off-topic but I think the people in this thread should be able to help. I have an old HP server with four 2.8 GHz Xeon CPUs which are 32-bit. The machine came with 6 GB of RAM in it, and has capacity for 16 GB (but ECC Registered DDR200 is expensive so I won't be upgrading). Which version of Windows can access 6 GB of RAM AND work with these CPUs? I know it'll have to be a server OS as XP/Vista/7 only support up to two CPUs, and I know it'll have to be 32-bit...
I would give you one but the cost to ship it there is a killer. DDR2-400 ECC REG for the sossaman isn't that expensive from ebay last time I lookedQuote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101
Sossaman is ONLY 32bit so no way to use more than 4 gig that I know of.
OOPS, just remembered, I have to send one down south..:sofa:
Are you suuuuure? :D :p: I'm so tempted to try on my Tyan :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Movieman
I'd choose between Windows 7 32-bit or Windows Server 2008 32-bit, the latter is what I run. It is Vista based/related but without the sluggish-ness that Vista has! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101
Windows Server 2003 32-bit would work as well, tho this is a rather old OS! It'd be very quick tho!
same chipset, results should be the same unfortunately..BTW: I am still looking for one of the 2167 sammys if anyone ever finds one..I still have the one, need a mate for it and goes without saying that if anyone finds any of the 2300's contact me IMMEDIATELY! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss
Windows 7 won't work for me, I have four CPUs. The server was configured to have 6 GB RAM with 32-bit processors. the hard drives were wiped before it came to me so I don't know which OS was being used. All I know for sure is:
It was 32-bit
It supported more than 4 GB RAM
It was a server OS, as desktop OSs only support up to two CPUs
I know what you're thinking, 32-bit and 6 GB RAM don't gel. I'm thinking the same thing. But this server cost an absolute fortune back in its day and I don't see HP configuring it with more RAM than it can use for no reason. It DOES support both mirroring and hotswapping with RAM, but that's on a per memory card basis (it takes two cards with eight slots each) - mine has one card configured with 4x 1024 MB and 4x 512MB RAM.
@Movieman, the "give me one" was a joke cause they're so damn expensive to get down here (if you can get them at all).
I just started up this HP again, I think I'm going to pack it away. There's about an eight meter gap between my window and the neighbour's wall, and he just complained about the noise. MEH. Oh well, I have that SR-2 with dual Xeon E5645s coming... :D
Sell that old quad socket xeon for whatever you can get for it, not efficient in ANY way and 2- sossaman rigggs would out do it any day.Quote:
Originally Posted by [XC] Oj101
The SR2 with E5645's is a very viable machine and that will do 20 times what that quad xeon will and take less elec while doing it.
The problem here is finding a buyer. Posting it around the country is out of the question, as it weighs in at about 40 KGs with the second 800w redundant hot-swappable PSU and it's huge (6.94 x 19 x 26.5 in [17.6 x 48.3 x 67.3 cm]). I think it might come fairly close to a Sossaman considering it has four HT-enabled 2.8 GHz processors :D
If I get US $100 for this it'll be a lot, a Sossaman down here will cost $300 for one if you can find it.