[57north-discuss] [FS] IBM workstation in need of a good home

[Tony Travis]

On 26/01/15 12:29, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> [...]
> I might be interested if I learned a bit of its capabilities. This is
> a workstation from 10 years ago: what can it do today? How well do
> some applications run?

Hi, Andrea.

I think it has dual 2-core Opteron 200 series processors, which are
quite good, and 16GiB of RAM: I think this would be a good machine to
use for non-VM work if that's what you're interested in?

It's similar to the 2U 'Rackable Systems' servers that I donated to the
Space, but subsequently gave to Tom because everyone complained about
how much electricity they might use if we eventually got them working!

Tom can give you an idea of how well OpenBSD etc. runs. I found them
very good for running non-VM tasks under Ubuntu 12.04 (I used them as
worker nodes in a Beowulf, but stored them in my cold, damp garage).

HTH,

  Tony.

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