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• life sucks sometimes...

  Floz • 06/07/2015 at 03:37 • 0 comments

  ...but we hack on.

  my life and psychological health have taken a bit of a beating very recently. sadly, it has gotten to the point that it's affected my ability to focus on any projects outside of my 9-5.

  Fear not, my fellow benders-of-wrenches... I will rebound, probably pretty quickly.

  But today, just today (well, and part of yesterday) is f***ed up in my reality.
  

• update

  Floz • 06/05/2015 at 02:57 • 0 comments

  digging into specs, i'm going to shuffle ram around to make a couple of 512mb ram nodes.

  256mb of ram barely installs ubuntu server and opensshd.

  it runs great, install was SLOW.

  At this point, I'm going with https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/3.1.4/mpich-3.1.4-installguide.pdf something along these lines. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MpichCluster looks like something i might be able to pull off.
  

  I'm going to work with just ubuntu server and mpich as a start. following that, once it's confirmed that I have a working cluster, we need to benchmark it.

  this batch of machines were in various states of runs or doesn't... so I'm going to monkey around with them until I get at least 3 working nodes. I may ditch doubling the ram per node in the end, we'll see...

  BONUS! several of these have halfway decent ethernet cards in them.

  LINPACK? what is this...? *staggers off into the night*

• busy busy

  Floz • 06/05/2015 at 00:04 • 0 comments

  development on so many things at once, and that's not including my day job.

  as i type this, I'm installing ubuntu server on the first of these boxes.

  let's see how it goes! (updates to come through the evening)

  also, let's see if I can find a long enough cat5 cable for this machine so I don't have to move it.

• building a better list of what i have

  Floz • 05/15/2015 at 01:21 • 0 comments

  athlon xp 1800+	256mb	nvidia	Unknown	winxp sp3 - untested
  athlon xp 2200+	512mb	nvidia geforce2mx400	40gb IDE, CD, CDRW	winxp pro sp3 - cluttered but runs
  athlon xp ?	256mb	?	?	?
  athlon xp ?	256mb	?	?	?
  athlon xp ?	256mb	?	?	?
  athlon xp ?	256mb	?	?	?

  Six machines, I've powered one up and tried to boot from usb, and the bios was just a tad bit too old to support that. So I'm looking at bios flashing or burning a cd... which I know i have a blank cd around here... somewhere.

  Shortly after, I powered up the slightly more impressive cased machine, to find it had twice the ram. For those not paying attention, no... I'm not checking inside these before i plug them in, I'm brave like that. Again, no dice on the USB boot.

  more to come!
  

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