well, I don't have access to a digital camera right now, and I don't feel like spending money developing film for this, so I've looked through the archives of my site to look for older pictures.

the back of some of my beowulf cluster a couple years ago. (there's more when it's all setup, and currently due to the dead bps, my cluster is only one machine, a p4 1.5 ghz. it feels lonely because it can't pass any processes :down: )
[url]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/images/03.04.15/Beowulf2.jpg[/url]

wow, that's it. There aren't any other pictures of my computers on my website.

well, there's one at least. If I get my hands on a digital camera, I'll snap some quick pics.

I got my hands on a digital cam and snapped a couple pics. Doesn't quite show everything, but you'll see the bulk of it. My friends think I'm crazy. I hope you do too after seeing this...

First, what you see at my desk:
[URL]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/~doug/MainFront.jpg[/URL]
Wireless keyboards and mice are a necessity, they get sickly tangled otherwise... Also, if you look closely, you'll see a machine between the desk and the wall on the ground. That thar be my router/nat. A $5 p166 deskpro with linux and a couple nics. Works wonders. The mac monitor is propped up on the machine running it because the back of the monitor would hit the bottom of the window cill

Then, what runs the stuff I see at my desk:
[URL]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/~doug/Main.jpg[/URL]
Lots of cables, but nowhere near as bad as my backend shelving... Uhh, note the mission critical A/C and window fan. I like to call those my rooms' water cooling and case fans :grin:
Also, the machine on the right, is at another desk. It is my guest machine. Yes, I have an entire machine that guests can use. It comes in handy for gaming.

Next is the backend unit shelving. I can't stand far enough away from this, so it'll be 2 pictures:
(1) [URL]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/~doug/ShelveBottom.jpg[/URL]
This is the bottom of the shelving and a couple units on the floor. The units on the floor are the core of my beowulf cluster. Any other machines just get setup as dummy processing units. These 2 machines actually contain software that I run on the cluster. (note: as stated above, the cluster does not have any dummy nodes due to a nortel bps that died during a power outage...) The bottom shelf containes various services... IRC, mail... Also note the important SNES on the 2nd shelf! (very important!)
(2) [URL]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/~doug/ShelveTop.jpg[/URL]
Various other machines. Laser printer, another nortel bps...

And lastly, my spare crap downstairs:
[URL]http://www.dougtheslug.ca/~doug/Spares.jpg[/URL]
the leftovers. Some of which would be part of the beowulf cluster if I had a switch to network them in... these hunks of metal range from about 75mhz to 333mhz, pentium, amd, sun, mac (some aren't in this picture). And on the floor, right beside the shelving unit, is the dead bps. yay! 3 cheers for a dead piece of equipment!

as a note. I am not rich. Quite the opposite, I am a broke student. I just manage to find really good deals on junk. one deal managed to get me about 10 pentium 166's for about 5$ a piece. I still have most of them. as for my decent machines, well, that's why I'm broke... I also managed to get all my sun hardware for about 40$ (ultrasparc2, sparc20, sparc10 and a couple huge monitors). I also have a laptop which I got for free. It's hardly worth mentioning. pentium100 with 16M of ram. pitiful.

uhh, a summary (yes, i know this is sad)
6 machines over 1ghz (duron 1.2ghz to athlonxp 2500)
20ish pentiums (p1,p2,p3) 75mhz to 450mhz (some running, some not)
3 macs (75 to 225 mhz)
3 sun (sparc10&20, ultrasparc2)

oh, I run winxp, win2k, debian, macos8.6

so, I now hope you think I'm crazy. :banana: damn, that banana is awesome!

[QUOTE=DougTheSlug]uhh, a summary (yes, i know this is sad)
6 machines over 1ghz (duron 1.2ghz to athlonxp 2500)
20ish pentiums (p1,p2,p3) 75mhz to 450mhz (some running, some not)
3 macs (75 to 225 mhz)
3 sun (sparc10&20, ultrasparc2)

oh, I run winxp, win2k, debian, macos8.6

so, I now hope you think I'm crazy. :banana: damn, that banana is awesome![/QUOTE]
Neither sad nor crazy. It's rather similar to what I have at home, though you have more Suns and I have more DECStations.


Paul

[QUOTE=DougTheSlug]

6 machines over 1ghz (duron 1.2ghz to athlonxp 2500)
20ish pentiums (p1,p2,p3) 75mhz to 450mhz (some running, some not)
3 macs (75 to 225 mhz)
3 sun (sparc10&20, ultrasparc2)

oh, I run winxp, win2k, debian, macos8.6

so, I now hope you think I'm crazy. :banana: damn, that banana is awesome![/QUOTE]
Just one quick question: how many of those machines you use to run Prime95? :whistle:

you may have noticed by the amazingly small number of posts on this forum, that I am new to this program.

I just downloaded the apps, and have been running them in torture test mode for a few days now. I have not registered with the network, and as such I am currently not contributing anything.

I have been running a dnetc client on my cluster for quite some time now, and last summer, I managed to be the largest contributor for a 3ish month photon rendering project using my top 5 machines.
[url]http://www.cpjava.net/photonproj.html[/url]
That was definitely pretty cool.

Once I get settled in with this, I will likely install and run a registered client for this on one of my machines. maybe even run it on the cluster. Give it a process and see what it does as it bounces around from machine to machine.

[url=http://www.geocities.com/g_w_reynolds/files/farm.jpg]Here[/url] is my little farm. The five small-form-factor computers range from P2/400 to P3/600, and are mainly used for NFS sieving. The tower in the middle is a Celeron 2.4 which mainly does stage one ECM with mprime. The tower on the right is a P4 2.4C (HT) with 1GB DDR500, it is the file and boot server, and does sieving and linear algebra for NFS and stage two ECM.

Nice farm.... Mine currently has a 1.8 ghz duron and 500 mhz p3 running plus regular machines but those are my farm really

Geoff, you just need the image to be under 100K.

1 - Opteron 170 is on the speaker (2.6GHz)
2 - Opteron 165s are on the floor. (2.5 GHz)
4 - X2-3800s are located in the black case and on the table (2.4 GHz)
1 - X2-4400 is in the silver case (2.4 GHz)
~40 gigglehurtz in a ~4'x4' foot print that gets fresh air from the window.
Runs on 2 dedicated 20 amp circuits. :showoff:
Out of the picture is a Mac-Mini (1.47 GHz) and an AMD64 laptop (2 GHz)

thats so wrong...

One question for every one having a farm in his living room:
Is the noise bearable?