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This section covers the hardware choices I've made. Unless noted
in the
known hardware issues
section, assume that everything works really well.
Hardware installation is also fairly straight-forward unless
otherwise noted, with most of the details covered by the manuals. For
each section, the hardware is listed in the order of purchase (most
recent is listed first).
32 machines have the following setup each:
2 AMD Palamino MP XP 2000+ 1.67 GHz CPUs
Asus A7M266-D w/LAN Dual DDR
2 Kingston 512mb PC2100 DDR-266MHz REG ECC RAM
1 41 GB Maxtor 7200rpm ATA100 HD
1 120 GB Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD
Asus CD-A520 52x CDROM
1.44mb floppy drive
ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128 32mb
IN-WIN P4 300ATX Mid Tower case
Enermax P4-430ATX power supply
32 machines have the following setup each:
2 AMD Palamino MP XP 1800+ 1.53 GHz CPUs
Tyan S2460 Dual Socket-A/MP motherboard
Kingston 512mb PC2100 DDR-266MHz REG ECC RAM
1 20 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200rpm HD
1 120 GB Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD
Asus CD-A520 52x CDROM
1.44mb floppy drive
ATI Expert 98 8mb AGP video card
IN-WIN P4 300ATX Mid Tower case
Intel PCI PRO-100 10/100Mbps network card
Enermax P4-430ATX power supply
32 machines have the following setup each:
2 Pentium III 1 GHz Intel CPUs
Supermicro 370 DLE Dual PIII-FCPGA motherboard
2 256 MB 168-pin PC133 Registered ECC Micron RAM
1 20 GB Maxtor ATA/66 5400 RPM HD
1 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM HD
Asus CD-S500 50x CDROM
1.4 MB floppy drive
ATI Expert 98 8 MB PCI video card
IN-WIN P4 300ATX Mid Tower case
1 server for external use (dissemination of information) with the
following setup:
2 AMD Palamino MP XP 2000+ 1.67 GHz CPUs
Asus A7M266-D w/LAN Dual DDR
4 Kingston 512mb PC2100 DDR-266MHz REG ECC RAM
Asus CD-A520 52x CDROM
1 41 GB Maxtor 7200rpm ATA100 HD
6 120 GB Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD
1.44mb floppy drive
ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128 32mb
IN-WIN P4 300ATX Mid Tower case
Enermax P4-430ATX power supply
1 desktop with the following setup:
2 AMD Palamino MP XP 2000+ 1.67 GHz CPUs
Asus A7M266-D w/LAN Dual DDR
2 Kingston 512mb PC2100 DDR-266MHz REG ECC RAM
Ricoh 32x12x10 CDRW/DVD Combo EIDE
1 41 GB Maxtor 7200rpm ATA100 HD
1 120 GB Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD
1.44mb floppy drive
ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128 32mb
IN-WIN P4 300ATX Mid Tower case
Intel PCI PRO-100 10/100Mbps network card
Enermax P4-430ATX power supply
1 desktop with the following setup:
2 Intel Xeon 1.7 GHz 256K 400FS
Supermicro P4DCE Dual Xeon motherboard
4 256mb RAMBUS 184-Pin 800 MHz memory
2 120 GB Maxtor ATA/100 5400 RPM HD
1 60 GB Maxtor ATA/100 7200 RPM HD
52X Asus CD-A520 INT IDE CDROM
1.4 MB floppy drive
Leadtex 64 MB GF2 MX400 AGP
Creative SB LIVE Value PCI 5.1
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Supermicro SC760 full-tower case with 400W PS
2 desktops with the following setup:
2 AMD K7 1.2g/266 MP Socket A CPU
Tyan S2462NG Dual Socket A motherboard
4 256mb PC2100 REG ECC DDR-266Mhz
3 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM HD
50X Asus CD-A520 INT IDE CDROM
1.4 MB floppy drive
Chaintech Geforce2 MX200 32mg AGP
Creative SB LIVE Value PCI
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Full-tower case with 300W PS
2 desktops with the following setup:
2 Pentium III 1 GHz Intel CPUs
Supermicro 370 DLE Dual PIII-FCPGA motherboard
4 256 MB 168-pin PC133 Registered ECC Micron RAM
3 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM HD
Asus CD-S500 50x CDROM
1.4 MB floppy drive
Jaton Nvidia TNT2 32mb PCI
Creative SB LIVE Value PCI
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Full-tower case with 300W PS
2 desktops with the following setup:
2 Pentium III 1 GHz Intel CPUs
Supermicro 370 DLE Dual PIII-FCPGA motherboard
4 256 MB 168-pin PC133 Registered ECC Micron RAM
3 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM HD
Mitsumi 8x/4x/32x CDRW
1.4 MB floppy drive
Jaton Nvidia TNT2 32mb PCI
Creative SB LIVE Value PCI
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Full-tower case with 300W PS
1 desktop with the following setup:
2 Pentium III 1 GHz Intel CPUs
Supermicro 370 DE6 Dual PIII-FCPGA motherboard
4 256 MB 168-pin PC133 Registered ECC Micron RAM
3 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM HD
Ricoh 32x12x10 CDRW/DVD Combo EIDE
Asus CD-A520 52x CDROM
1.4 MB floppy drive
Asus V7700 64mb GeForce2-GTS AGP video card
Creative SB Live Platinum 5.1 sound card
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Full-tower case with 300W PS
3 desktops with the following setup:
2 Pentium III 1 GHz Intel CPUs
Supermicro 370 DE6 Dual PIII-FCPGA motherboard
4 256 MB 168-pin PC133 Registered ECC Micron RAM
3 40 GB Maxtor UDMA/100 7200 RPM hard disk
Ricoh 32x12x10 CDRW/DVD Combo EIDE
1.4 MB floppy drive
Asus V7700 64mb GeForce2-GTS AGP video card
Creative SB Live Platinum 5.1 sound card
Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
Full-tower case with 300W PS
1 firewall with the following setup:
AMD Palamino XP 1700+ 1.47GHz CPU
MSI KT3 Ultra2 KT333 MS-6380E motherboard
512 MB PC2100 DDR-266MHz DIMM RAM
40GB Seagate 7200rpm ATA/100 hard disk
Asus 52X CD-A520 INT IDE cdrom
1.44 MB floppy drive
ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128 32mb video card
4 Intel Pro/1000T Gigabit Server ethernet cards
4U Black Rackmount Steel case
Backup:
2 Sony 20/40 GB DSS4 SE LVD DAT drives
Monitors:
1 20.1" Viewsonic VP201M LCD monitor
1 22" Viewsonic P220F 0.25-0.27m monitor
4 21" Sony CPD-G500 .24mm monitor
2 18" Viewsonic VP181 LCD monitor
1 17" Viewsonic VE170 LCD monitor
2 Sun monitors
Printers:
HP colour laserject 4600dn
We use KVM switches with a cheap monitor to connect up and "look"
at all the machines:
15" .28dp XLN CTL Monitor
3 Belkin Omniview 16-Port Pro Switches
Belkin Omniview 2-Port Switch
While this is a nice solution, I think it's kind of needless. What
we need is a small hand held monitor that can plug into the back of
the PC (operated with a stylus, like the Palm). I don't plan to use
more monitor switches/KVM cables.
Networking is important:
1 Netgear FSM750S 48 port/2 git network switch
1 Netgear FS517TS 16 port/1 git network switch
1 Netgear FS750NA 48 port network switch
1 Netgear FS524 24 port network switch
1 Cisco Catalyst 3448 XL Enterprise Edition 48 port network switch
1 Netgear ME102NA Wireless Access Point
1 Netgear MA401NA Wireless PCMCIA network card
Our vendor is Hard Drives Northwest (
http://www.hdnw.com ). For each
compute node in our cluster (containing two processors), we paid about
$1500-$2000, including taxes. Generally, our goal is to keep each node to
below $2000.00 (which is what our desktop machines cost).
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