ichey103 Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 hello all i just got a 3com switch from the flea market for 5 bucks (ill add pics if requested)but i have a switch and a few spare computers and i wan to something along the lines of making a gaming server rack but cant find documentation on it or vids or pics im willing to have a good discussion can anyone help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Lots of 'pics' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 hey if you can wait another coupe weeks ill have my build of one up in the mods section :).....You can build one for el-cheapo so stay tuned! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 hey if you can wait another coupe weeks ill have my build of one up in the mods section :).....You can build one for el-cheapo so stay tuned! amd athlon xp 1.5 512ram (not an emachine processor and memory was emachine but the board isnt) gateway p4 1.2 64megram (has some kind ram called eipp or some thing not normal 3com superstack switch (5bucks at flea market)(going back this weekend to see what else the guy has) besides im looking for how to set one up i want to run game servers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 HAHAHA!!!! Your computer pile looks like mine! same gateways and all......are you shopping at your local schools dumpster too! :shock:. Since you have towers and not rack mount cases you may want to rethink how you want to proceed with your project. An ok RM case is about $50 + so at $150 + it'll cost you more to to buy cases then build the rack. Course if your not on a budget go for it and swap 'em over. The Rack im building has about 42 u of actual rack space, and will have a 22" - 28" empty space at the bottom to accommodate towers. You can get rack brackets in sises ranging from 8U up, so you can build a rack of almost any size, or custom build outa angle iron / steel / aluminum ......if you have the equip. I actually have another project going on that is a Touch screen jute box, using rack mount equip.....but funds are holding me back.....LAME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 like i said im doig it this way to learn how to setup and configure everything for now MY personal SYSTEM SPECS AMD 64 +3000 2.8gig 2gig ram and 256mb fx geforce 6200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 You don't need the geforce for a server (unless you have a head on it for some reason), it will just eat power and produce heat. Get hold of something like a PCI S3 card or use integrated graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 12, 2007 Author Share Posted June 12, 2007 You don't need the geforce for a server (unless you have a head on it for some reason), it will just eat power and produce heat. Get hold of something like a PCI S3 card or use integrated graphics. that my computer the i use to play on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Wasn't clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 this was worng Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Now im confused do you want help building a rack or setting up / maintaining a network >? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 13, 2007 Author Share Posted June 13, 2007 a little bit of both i guess i want whatever 3 computers to function as one to divide the load and work together its just something i really want to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Is what i want to do a cluster server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 Yup. Although with windows its only really useful for shared hosting on IIS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 16, 2007 Author Share Posted June 16, 2007 Yup. Although with windows its only really useful for shared hosting on IIS. i want to run game servers on it and someone told me the best way is to join them into one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted June 16, 2007 Share Posted June 16, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_clus...tering_software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 17, 2007 Author Share Posted June 17, 2007 right but nothing on setting up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichey103 Posted June 17, 2007 Author Share Posted June 17, 2007 High-performance computing (HPC) clustering High-performance computing (HPC) cluster technology is used in supercomputers (multiple computers working in parallel and acting as one computer to achieve very high calculating power). Unlike failover-clusters, HPC-clusters do not require shared disk as it only does calculations and does not need to read or write to a common storage. If one of the machines in a HPC-cluster fails, then all that happens is that the cluster as a whole can not calculate as fast but none of the functionality is lost. Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) is a such cluster technology software, announced in June 2006 by Microsoft,[2] i just dont know anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted June 17, 2007 Share Posted June 17, 2007 right but nothing on setting upso sorry I have no idea how this link got deleted http://clusterknoppix.sw.be/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killzone Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 sorry for the delayed response.......fishing trip! GL with the cluster, Ive never had a need for one, though i have done some distributed computing before for dev classes. Post some stuff it you get it up and running. -KZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natural_orange Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Lots of 'pics' those pictures give me nightmares. I had a summer job of basically ripping out all of the cables in a rack and replacing them all, and organizing them all.... it was such a pain... especaily when all they had was like EIGHT FOOT PATCH CABLES, that was annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unasoto Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Lots of 'pics' those pictures give me nightmares. I had a summer job of basically ripping out all of the cables in a rack and replacing them all, and organizing them all.... it was such a pain... especaily when all they had was like EIGHT FOOT PATCH CABLES, that was annoying Your nightmares are my wet dreams ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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