[NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100

[Zac Brown]

Quick correction, its not distributed computing like I thought, but it
still uses a central server to report your box's finds as it tries to
compute the next largest Mersenne prime.

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:46, Zac Brown wrote:
> Collin,
> 	Like the others mentioned, I'd probably run FreeBSD or NetBSD on it
> (FreeBSD for me). Though I did take a look and redhat still has has the
> 7.2 ISO's for it and all. I *think* they still support it, but I'm not
> positive. You can always run Debian as well, though it wouldn't be my
> choice. You could put that thing to use doing some good math
> calculations... like the distributed Mersenne prime project which can
> always use some 64 bit quad processing machines with good floating point
> :). Here's a link to that project, http://www.mersenne.org/, hope it
> helps.
> 
> Zac
> 
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:21, comcast wrote:
> > Hey,
> > I just purchased a Compaq Alphaserver 2100 and was wondering if anybody has
> > any experience with these, or basically... any advice as to what to do with
> > it.  From what I've gathered it's a 4 processor DEC Alpha based system with
> > 275MHz CPU's.  I've some some various reports of running Redhat 7.1/2 on
> > these machines, but the majority of OS's that are reported as running are
> > Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. FreeBSD and OpenVMS.  I've never owned a server
> > before and any advice or knowledge that anybody has would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Collin.=
> > 
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