Recently I happened across 26 sticks of 4GB ddr3, 12 i5 2400 CPUs and a single i7 2600 from decommissioned computers (all motherboards or power supplies were bad in them).
Basically all I'd need is a lot of LGA 1155 motherboards and power supplies to get them up and running.
I would likely sell or donate most of the computers after I'm done learning Beowulf and keep a few as servers or something useful. so to me it seems like it will be worth my time to learn
My goals for the build itself?
-Find decent motherboards that I wouldn't mind keeping for myself. I don't want bottom of the barrel boards, but at the same time I don't want to spend a ton on them.
-Find a sub $50 case for each of them (or no case if I can figure out a way to mount the boards safely together).
-Good power supplies that don't break the bank.
Goals for the uses?
-discover how to build a Beowulf cluster, DUH!
-folding nodes?
-Likely boot off the network from a "master server" I may set aside one of the i5s for this. I also have a couple of older ITX computers one with a AMD integrated APU and the other with a atom.
-VM cluster?
-suggestions that don't involve anything illegal??
When it's broken down I'll be keeping 1-3 of them for some uses... NAS, file server, VM server, epic router? And more uses that I can't think of at the moment.
First things first however... I gotta make sure that the CPUs & RAM work before I really get to business
I'm open to any suggestions...
Basically all I'd need is a lot of LGA 1155 motherboards and power supplies to get them up and running.
I would likely sell or donate most of the computers after I'm done learning Beowulf and keep a few as servers or something useful. so to me it seems like it will be worth my time to learn
My goals for the build itself?
-Find decent motherboards that I wouldn't mind keeping for myself. I don't want bottom of the barrel boards, but at the same time I don't want to spend a ton on them.
-Find a sub $50 case for each of them (or no case if I can figure out a way to mount the boards safely together).
-Good power supplies that don't break the bank.
Goals for the uses?
-discover how to build a Beowulf cluster, DUH!
-folding nodes?
-Likely boot off the network from a "master server" I may set aside one of the i5s for this. I also have a couple of older ITX computers one with a AMD integrated APU and the other with a atom.
-VM cluster?
-suggestions that don't involve anything illegal??
When it's broken down I'll be keeping 1-3 of them for some uses... NAS, file server, VM server, epic router? And more uses that I can't think of at the moment.
First things first however... I gotta make sure that the CPUs & RAM work before I really get to business
I'm open to any suggestions...
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