Equipment Reduction… :|
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007I decided a while back to scale down my network and related equipment, to get rid of things that I have not used in a long time. Call it a technical spring cleaning of you want…
I went from about 21 computers in my home office down to 10. The other computers were either scrapped for parts, combined into a single computer and given away, or thrown to the garbage. I could not bare to part with my SGI workstations or the 72 port network hub, so I decided to store them in my attic… until I had a new project in mind that may require them.
I imagine that the number of remaining systems will be cut in half again soon. Although, I plan on making a dedicated computer room soon when I get the power requirements figured out, I will end stacking in the rack mounted servers. and take the system count down to two, while probably boosting up to 12 to 24 rack mounted servers. Depending on if I am still interested in the beowulf cluster and parallel processing projects at the time.