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An SSD VPS node from HostHatch. A SuperMicro server with 12 SSD...

serverbear — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:30:07 -0700

A SuperMicro server with 12 SSD drives in Hardware RAID10 & Intel E3-1230v2 CPU.

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Early picture of Pixar’s RenderFarm, this particular one was...

serverbear — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:51:38 -0700

Early picture of Pixar’s RenderFarm, this particular one was used to do all the rendering in the original Toy Story. Sorry about the quality, this picture is from a Newspaper.

The RenderFarm was comprised of 87 dual processor and 30 four-processor Sun workstations, as well as one eight-processor stations. This allowed for the execution of 16 billion instructions per minute. If they had used one processor, it would have taken them a total of 43 years to make the movie. The movie (which consists of 1500 shots and 114, 000 frames) took approximately 800,000 computer hours to create. Each frame used approximately 300 megabytes of data, and took 2 to 13 hours to create.

Second rack at RamNode Atlanta. On that note we’re running...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:00 -0700

Second rack at RamNode Atlanta.

On that note we’re running a competition to win one of 10 RamNode SSD VPS this month:

A ComputerLINK storage node built for an OpenStack environment,...

serverbear — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:30:58 -0700

A ComputerLINK storage node built for an OpenStack environment, e5620 CPU, 24/49 GB of RAM. Capacity depends on how the storage gets distributed by the OpenStack setup but this particular server can hold up to 72GB+

A rare picture from inside one of the Rackspace datacenters,...

serverbear — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:24:52 -0700

A rare picture from inside one of the Rackspace datacenters, this was used to promote their Cloud Block Storage service which is built on OpenStack (of which Rackspace is one of the core contributors behind Red Hat).

One of Google’s custom servers from ~07-08, notice the 12v...

serverbear — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:58:00 -0700

One of Google’s custom servers from ~07-08, notice the 12v battery designed for redundancy should the main power supply fail. This server is 2U, has 2 CPU’s, 8 RAM Slots & 2 Hitachi Desktar SATA hard drives.

Goes to show you can do things in a simple way, especially when you have thousands of these things all running in a DC.

TACC Stampede Cluster - 6,400 Nodes containing Intel Xeon Phi...

serverbear — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:30:58 -0700

TACC Stampede Cluster - 6,400 Nodes containing Intel Xeon Phi processors, total number of cores are 102,400 with 205TB of RAM & 14PB of storage. Peak performance of this beast sits at 7+ PetaFlops.

Rack of SuperMicro servers in the Linode Atlanta datacenter.

serverbear — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:37:35 -0700

Rack of SuperMicro servers in the Linode Atlanta datacenter.

EMC VNX5300 Series, can scale up to 240TB. This one in...

serverbear — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:49:34 -0800

EMC VNX5300 Series, can scale up to 240TB. This one in particular has 50TB.

Sexy casing too <3

Hot-swapping the disks in a Sun Fire x4540 Storage Server.

serverbear — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:38:26 -0800

Hot-swapping the disks in a Sun Fire x4540 Storage Server.

HP 3PAR T-Class high density storage solution, stores up to...

serverbear — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:08:00 -0800

HP 3PAR T-Class high density storage solution, stores up to 800TB in a full rack. Maximum of 40 drives per enclosure. All connected up to an 8 Gbs fibre channel.

HP Proliant Generation 8, 2 x Intel Xeon® E5-2620...

serverbear — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:30:00 -0800

HP Proliant Generation 8, 2 x Intel Xeon® E5-2620 (2.0GHz/6-core/95W), 64GB of DDR3-1333 & 6 x 136GB 15k SAS HDD.

EMC² high performance VNX series SAN configurable up to 256TB...

serverbear — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:29:30 -0800

EMC² high performance VNX series SAN configurable up to 256TB per unit.

NetApp racks at FatCow including two FAS3050 SAN which hold up...

serverbear — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:30:34 -0800

NetApp racks at FatCow including two FAS3050 SAN which hold up to 126TB of storage.

Cisco M3 blade with 196GB of RAM.

serverbear — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:30:35 -0800

Cisco M3 blade with 196GB of RAM.

This is what 768GB of RAM looks like.

serverbear — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:30:48 -0800

This is what 768GB of RAM looks like.

160 Mac Minis in a single custom server rack. Why? This is a...

serverbear — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:31:42 -0800

160 Mac Minis in a single custom server rack.

Why? This is a setup for a company that does a lot of apple development so they need lots of machines to test apps.

SeaMicro SM1000 low power server can be configured with up to...

serverbear — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:30:53 -0800

SeaMicro SM1000 low power server can be configured with up to 256 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom processors. Fits in 10RU of space & uses as little as ¼ of the power.

Engineer finishing the cabling on the IBM Blue Gene/P super...

serverbear — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:30:47 -0800

Engineer finishing the cabling on the IBM Blue Gene/P super computer. 72 racks, 144TB of memory & 825.5 Teraflops of computing power.

Dell Compellent zNAS a highly scalable ZFS file server with...

serverbear — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:30:56 -0800

Dell Compellent zNAS a highly scalable ZFS file server with clustering support.