Re: How much to buy an second hand IBM i hardware and what about licenses

Rob, this is so true - I once had a visit from the local police officer
after FLIR readings / them being notified by Eandis (local power grid
management co).

I was lucky enough to have a flat which had "bills included", so I ended up
with three rows of Ikea book racks with main boards stuffed with AMD GPUs.
It became a rather interesting setup, since I piggy-backed more than one
main board on heavy duty ATX PSUs (the GPUs had their own power lines). The
cluster required a special start-up strategy since everything booted off of
NFS - the set-up was implemented in 2011, and back then there was a
flooding in Thailand, causing a huge shortage of hard drives.

Cooling was a real issue, during winter I could cool using snow from
outside and icy winds by keeping windows open, but during summer I ran on
1/3rd capacity with a new machine spinning up if another one overheated and
shut down, allowing it to cool down.


2014-12-15 13:24 GMT+00:00 <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

In our area if you are listed as a residence yet consume too much
electricity then you may notice you're being monitored by the police
because of suspicion of using grow lights in your basement to grow
marijuana.


Rob Berendt
--
IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
Group Dekko
Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From: "Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/15/2014 08:16 AM
Subject: Re: How much to buy an second hand IBM i hardware and what
about licenses
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



In Paraguay, for home is 0.08 U$D / KW/h, for indutry it is 41 dolar
each MWh

Holger Scherer wrote:

Not too bad - at the moment we pay about 19US-cent, special contract as

we draw about 450MW/h a year... when we reach 500, we get a new pricing
level ;-)

-h
(going to switch on some more boxes...)

Am 14.12.2014 um 21:28 schrieb DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

We are fortunately supplied by a cooperative so our power is about 13

cents/KWH including all taxes and service fees.

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