[HECnet] House heater anyone?

My alphaserver 1200 with two 5/533 cpus, 4GB memory and 8 disks internally draws 500 Watts. That's 12 kWhr each day, around 2,5 per day. A fully loaded 4100 has 4 cpus and draws as much as 650 W (swag). My monthly power bill is 140 / month. No way I'll run systems 24/7 ever again. An integrity is not an option I guess. Hans Verzonden vanaf mijn draadloze BlackBerry -toestel -----Original Message----- From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:44:56 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] House heater anyone? Realistically what would it draw, compared to say an Alphaserver 4100 with two BA365s, fully populated? I've got some space in a rack in my machine room, with air conditioning :) Sampsa On 8 Jul 2011, at 22:42, Mark Benson wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 21:38, Sampsa Laine wrote: On 8 Jul 2011, at 21:33, Joe Ferraro wrote: The rx4640 should hold four dual-core I2s (1.6GHz / 24MB L3), and should have Madison / Tukwila availability to allow one to run openVMS under HP Integrity Virtual Machines. That'd be kinda cool, if we stuffed it full of RAM we could be provisioning little virtual VMS 8.4 IA64 boxes to people on HECNET, no? Virtual DECNET hosting :) Good luck raising the mortgage to pa y the electric bill for running hat monster 24/7. Most data centres would kill your wallet to host something like that because of the power and heat dissipation problems vs. the tweeny little dual-core 1U rack units most web hosting companies use. :) It's a cool idea though all the same! -- Mark Benson My Blog: <http://markbenson.org/blog> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mdbenson "Never send a human to do a machine's job..."