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February 2nd, 2008
09:30 pm - mips
I bought an SGI O2 R5k off of eBay last month and it arrived on Monday. I've spent most of the week tinkering and reading and after one bad kernel got it booting linux last night. When people tell you these things are slow they aren't kidding. I remember thinking building on a P3-450 was bad. ;) But I built a couple of cross-compilers yesterday and fought with distcc most of the morning so I think I'm in good shape (or at least as good as a cluster consisting of a dual core laptop and an em64t desktop can be). I'm also planning on getting a couple Octane2 R10k boxes soon (and i should really get the PS3 running Gentoo already) so that should help keep me busy for a while and ramp up the power bill.
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | February 3rd, 2008 07:30 am (UTC) |
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| | Power bills and heating | (Link) |
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Just think... with all those boxes going, you'll save on heating bills whilst playing with all that exotic hardware. ;-)
Regards,
Stuart Longland
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| Date: | March 3rd, 2008 08:56 pm (UTC) |
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| | Re: Power bills and heating | (Link) |
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Hah! Welcome to the family of mips users... :)
And really, you won't have too much to worry about power bills unless you get yourself an Origin 200. I managed to double my power bill with one of those. :) |
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