My new rig is up and running
Posted by Tom Moertel Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:58:00 GMT
I am happy to report that I am typing this post on my new homebrew workstation. It sure does feel snappy!
Vitals: AMD Opteron 165 (dual core), 4-GB ECC RAM, 500-GB RAID5 storage (hot-swap trays), Fedora Core 4 Linux (workstation install). I went with the AMD Opteron because of the on-chip memory controllers and better I/O architecture.
Here’s a snapshot taken halfway through the assembly process:
The heat-pipe system that AMD provided to remove heat from the Opteron 165 reminds me of the exhaust systems on top-fuel funny cars:
Dig that shiny copper!
readers
What do you plan on running on that beast of a machine? To me it would seem perfect to be an home all-in-one server using VmWare Server to have a couple separate servers running on it at once. One built as a firewall, one as a webserver, with all that space one as a fileserver, etc.
Erik, that beast is my main development workstation. Compiling big projects with full optimizations under GHC can eat a lot of CPU cycles. Also, I need the 64-bit address space to keep up with Firefox’s memory consumption habit.
;-)Wow, if I had a system like that I would have turned it into a serious gaming rig. I guess Haskell development is a much nobler cause. :D