sun blade 1000 donation

Andy,

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was
wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it.

Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel
scsi disks.

It weighs a ton.

I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause.

Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our
ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption.

Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for
the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

Andy,

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days.  I was
wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it.

Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel
scsi disks.

It weighs a ton.

I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause.

Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our ability to
accept stuff which is large & high power consumption.

Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for the
buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us.

Would you like an IPC instead? Though building PG on it might take
longer than the average release cycle. ;)

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On Wed, 27 May 2009, andy wrote:

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days...It weighs
a ton.

Bah, I know I picked one of those up myself once, which means it's far
from being what I'd consider a heavy server as Sun hardware goes. Specs
say it's 70 pounds and pulls 670W. It's a tower form factor through,
right? That would make it hard to install some places.

--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

Greg Smith wrote:

On Wed, 27 May 2009, andy wrote:

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days...It
weighs a ton.

Bah, I know I picked one of those up myself once, which means it's far
from being what I'd consider a heavy server as Sun hardware goes. Specs
say it's 70 pounds and pulls 670W. It's a tower form factor through,
right? That would make it hard to install some places.

--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not
be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was
near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that
correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load)

-Andy

On 05/27/09 22:00, Josh Berkus wrote:

Andy,

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was
wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it.

Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel
scsi disks.

It weighs a ton.

I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause.

Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our
ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption.

Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it
for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us.

Actually I think you can use cutting edge OpenSolaris 2009.06 release
(which will happen in less than a week) for SPARC on that hardware. I
haven't tried it out on Sun Blade 1000/2000 yet but in theory you can.
Refer to the following thread

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-February/014134.html

Though you will need an Automated Installer setup to install OpenSolaris
on SPARC
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/index.html

Regards,
Jignesh

Jignesh K. Shah wrote:

On 05/27/09 22:00, Josh Berkus wrote:

Andy,

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days. I was
wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it.

Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel
scsi disks.

It weighs a ton.

I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause.

Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our
ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption.

Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it
for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us.

Actually I think you can use cutting edge OpenSolaris 2009.06 release
(which will happen in less than a week) for SPARC on that hardware. I
haven't tried it out on Sun Blade 1000/2000 yet but in theory you can.
Refer to the following thread

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-February/014134.html

Though you will need an Automated Installer setup to install OpenSolaris
on SPARC
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/index.html

Regards,
Jignesh

Well that could be fun to play with. I have snv_99 on there now, so I'm
not too outdated. The two drives are in a zfs mirror and as long as you
use both processors its a pretty snappy box. (gmake vs gmake -j 4 is
noticeably faster)

But still.. I'm buying a new computer and need to clear out some of the
old one's first. (I took a count, and I have about 11 computers,
counting anything I can ssh to or run apache on as a computer (so my
gf's iTouch counts as a computer))

-Andy

Greg Smith wrote:

On Thu, 28 May 2009, Andy Colson wrote:

Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may
not be out of the ordinary).

To give you a better idea of the scale people were thinking with your
original comment, the last Sun server I installed was 170 pounds and you
had to provision a dedicated power outlet for it. The Blade 1000 would
be considered a medium sized server. A small server is one that fits in
1 to 3 rack units.

--
* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD

Sweet. That sounds fun to play on. So yeah, as I was saying before,
its a 75lb box, nothing huge.. ya know... average... :-)

-Andy

Andy,

Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not
be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was
near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that
correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load)

Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is
still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it (our
donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for this
machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else?

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

Josh Berkus wrote:

Andy,

Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not
be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was
near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that
correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load)

Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is
still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it (our
donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for this
machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else?

I'll plug it in tonight when I get home and verify those numbers.

It looks like there are a bunch of sparc build farm members, would
another really be helpful?

-Andy

Andy Colson wrote:

Josh Berkus wrote:

Andy,

Yeah, when it shipped I think it was about 75 pounds. It is a tower,
yes, and an impressively large box (my experience with servers is
limited, this is the first I've ever gotten to play with, so it may not
be out of the ordinary). I think my kill-a-watt said, at idle, it was
near 300W. (Though it's been a while, I may not be remembering that
correctly, and I don't recall looking at it under load)

Ok, that's not as bad as the spec sheet online looked. The machine is
still too slow/old for benchmarking though, and we couldn't rack it
(our donated rack space is limited). Does someone have a home for
this machine? And would we use it for buildfarm, or for something else?

I'll plug it in tonight when I get home and verify those numbers.

It looks like there are a bunch of sparc build farm members, would
another really be helpful?

-Andy

Yep, 300W both at idle and under load.

-Andy