My Cluster
Proliants:
I have three Compaq Proliants, of which one is inactive with a broken CD drive. The other two are currently configured to run in a two-node OpenSSI cluster. Both are attached to half of my 14-drive raid array of 9.1GB 15,000RPM discs. As they spin so fast, these drives make a lot of noise, and with the fans in the array housing and the Proliants themselves the sound can be quite intense. The two nodes in this cluster are based on Pentium IIs running at 600+600 and 650+650MHz in a dual CPU symmetric multiprocessing configuration (two CPUs per node – similar to dual core of today’s standard, but with distinctly separate packages).
SlimJim:
This is my newest server, running Windows Server 2003 when I can be bothered to use it. In a 1u rack-mount chassis this is the smallest machine I have in my cluster, although it is quite deep (too deep to fit perfectly in my rack). I use this machine for testing deployment of CRIMP on the windows platform. The processor in this machine is a P4 2GHz package along with 1GB of RAM.
Turbine:
My old desktop system, this is the fastest of all my server machines running a Core2Duo E6600 clocked at 2.4GHz. The system has 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive. I use this system for most of my experimenting of web-based technologies.
Propeller:
The last of my machines. This machine has a standard desktop tower form-factor. With 1GB of RAM and an AMD Sempron 2400 CPU.
Connectivity:
The entire cluster is connected to a 100Mbit switch, which is then up-linked to a port on my internet router/firewall. This router controls all internet access at my site. My ISP is SKY with an upstream capability of 768Kbps and downstream rate of ~5Mbps.
