Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

[Craig White]

Recognize that free advice is worth what you pay for it.

the same wattage at 120V is approximately twice the amperage of 220V.

It's easy to say plug it into your dryer outlet but some consideration
should always be paid to the current draw or wattage of the system being
plugged in.

Clearly these Sun servers were never intended to be run on any household
circuits.

Craig

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 09:55 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Alexander, 
> 
> These are not cost effective for a Colo!  They simply take up too much
> rack space.  You would do better holding a linux kernel bake sale and
> getting some good 1 u servers.  Power is going to be costly even at
> say Limelight, if they can even do it.
> 
> Depending on the colo, these already have their own free standing
> racks.
> 
> Your dryer power will work, depending on the customization for power
> these were installed with.  Converters exists, see GreyBar or other
> online sites.
> 
> First things to determine are a) what is the current power coupler on
> the Behemoth, b) what is your dryer coupler?  
> 
> alexanderhenry at cox.net wrote:
>         
>         ---- Charles Jones wrote: 
>         > I don't think they would work as game servers. They are Sun
>         servers, 
>         > they are not x86. even if you could get sparc-linux
>         installed on them, 
>         > no game server binaries would run on them.
>         > 
>         
>         I believe that what I had in mind can be compiled to
>         processors other than x86. I put in the request hastily but
>         not lightly, I do need to research a few things before I
>         decide I want this. Not the least of which is cost-benefit
>         analysis of keeping it in a co-lo.
>         
>         BTW, until I get a co-lo, will my laundry power supply work?