Tom Moertel's Weblog: My new rig is up and running

My new rig is up and running

Tom Moertel — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:58:00 -0500

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!

"My new rig is up and running" by Tom S.

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:50:56 -0500

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

"My new rig is up and running" by Tom Moertel

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:53:50 -0500

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. ;-)

"My new rig is up and running" by Erik

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:46:58 -0500

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.