Potential Deal: 2 x Dual 2011 nodes @$199, Quanta Openrack

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GVP_Supp

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The crypto is Monero and uses an algorithm called cryptonight which was designed to be cpu specific. Using both quanta boards with E5-2650's I make about $2.70/day after electricity costs.
sorry for offtopic. And which operating system are you using and which miner?
The taobao-link i had expired. Where do you guys get these nowdays? still a good deal?
游戏多开 安卓模拟器 渲染 32核 双路 X79 2011主板 C602 E5-2670
Or do you need a server in the case?
 

Barnett8

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sorry for offtopic. And which operating system are you using and which miner?
Ubuntu 16.04 using cpuminer-multi with 20 threads per node (optimal thread number depends on your processor cache) and I get ~700H/s out of each for a total of ~1.4kH/s.
 
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Also, some rather enterprising sellers in china have created a 12 node (6 unit) vertical cage that appears to fit into a standard 19" rack, looking like a HP BladeSystem. Since I don't see the BladeSystems often, i'd think of them like a larger Cisco Nexus 7k core switch. Pretty intriguing.

Now just to get a metal fabricator to copy the design...



 

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ok now i need to build that. We have a metal working company for our gunsmithing work right up the street
 

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Also, some rather enterprising sellers in china have created a 12 node (6 unit) vertical cage that appears to fit into a standard 19" rack, looking like a HP BladeSystem. Since I don't see the BladeSystems often, i'd think of them like a larger Cisco Nexus 7k core switch. Pretty intriguing.

Now just to get a metal fabricator to copy the design...




Were are those listed? Very cool. I would even like to have it as the rack to hold the servers on a shelf.
 

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Also, some rather enterprising sellers in china have created a 12 node (6 unit) vertical cage that appears to fit into a standard 19" rack, looking like a HP BladeSystem. Since I don't see the BladeSystems often, i'd think of them like a larger Cisco Nexus 7k core switch. Pretty intriguing.

Now just to get a metal fabricator to copy the design...



Agreed, that is very cool. Maybe I DO need five more of these, after all. :D
 

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Agreed, that is very cool. Maybe I DO need five more of these, after all. :D

I'm working on that, just received my third Wiwynn in today.

Packaged MUCH nicer than the first two, those were just thrown in a box with some foam and the power supply retaining pin broke off of one, and looks like the original packing.



 
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I'm working on that, just received my third Wiwynn in today.

Packaged MUCH nicer than the first two, those were just thrown in a box with some foam and the power supply retaining pin broke off of one, and looks like the original packing.
Very nice! where did you buy yours?

I'm a bit on the fence as i can't really find room for any more fulltower-sized builds and i can't deal with super-noisy 1U's.

How are these for noise?
How does the backplate look? Would it fit a "standard" CPU-fan (Evo 212 etc)
Shipping times?

Many thanks :)
 

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I hate to burst your bubble, but those prices are google translate-speak for "quasi-system" only. which in our terms, means barebones only. So it's actually a pretty bad deal, if you calculate them the enclosure ends up costing like $300 and you have a bunch of 6 used nodes.
 

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I hate to burst your bubble, but those prices are google translate-speak for "quasi-system" only. which in our terms, means barebones only. So it's actually a pretty bad deal, if you calculate them the enclosure ends up costing like $300 and you have a bunch of 6 used nodes.
Yes I confirm that it means barebones. I am in Hong Kong and I purchased a lot of Taobao stuff.
 
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Has anybody figured out to get SOL (Serial Over LAN) or any form of IPMI working on these guys (specifically the Quanta ones) ? If so, it would be great if you could share the steps cos while I can see the IPMI IPs, i'm not really quite sure where to start to connect to them.
 
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Moff Tigriss

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Has anybody figured out to get SOL (Serial Over LAN) or any form of IPMI working on these guys (specifically the Quanta ones) ? If so, it would be great if you could share the steps cos while I can see the IPMI IPs, i'm not really quite sure where to start to connect to them.
Yes, you have a solution here : post #152

It work, but only with ipmitool, AFAIK.
You can't use it with the cluster tools of vSphere (and if someone know how to make it work, my day will be faaaar better ^^), unless you have a relay (and i don't know if an IPMI relay is a thing or even possible).
 
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I've actually found that the IPMI on these is pretty reliable all things considered, including SoL, wake on LAN, and your other most common IPMI uses.

I've got roughly 30 nodes managed by MAAS where IPMI is used in the process of basically every management function.

The trick for OOB is watching your DHCP logs for what address gets assigned --- assuming you are lucky enough to have gotten a board with IPMI stock/default settings. Look for a dynamic hostname "dcmi0123456789" etc where 0123456789 is your IPMI MAC address, which should be one variant hex digit from the MAC address of the NIC port you're using.

Unless, that is, your non-volatile IPMI wasn't reset by your reseller, since these are all used, and the previous owner/datacenter may have turned off DHCP / changed the IP address scheme / changed admin user / altered things up more severely.

One way to solve this is that if you have one of the older BIOS revisions, and if you can guess a username in the admin group (USERID, admin, root, etc) then you can just use the Cipher Suite 0 exploit to take care of business (pass -C 0 and you're in).

Another option is installing CentOS 6 (the latest builds work fine) and using the custom DCMI tool ---OR--- a recent-ish FreeIPMI (compiling your own RPM from latest source is pretty simple) for access the IPMI in-band. I think it was around 2014/2015 the Windmill workarounds/drivers were integrated into FreeIPMI's tools.

Otherwise you might have to reflash BIOS and MEI to reset the IPMI non-volatile memory.

As a bonus --- on a similarly related note --- I've found that even boards with F03A_1A01 BIOS will happily take the latest available BIOS (F03C_3A07) --- YMMV, proceed at your own risk, don't hold me liable for bricking your board, etc. But I've done this on roughly five 1A01 BIOS boards without incident, although there's always a chance my tests haven't covered everything and this introduces some pain I'm not aware of. If you want to be cautious, just reflash with your current BIOS and MEI version and IPMI will be reset to factory settings. Just pulling out the battery and resetting via jumper isn't enough.
 
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