[jan-jaap]

This thing has run 24/7 in a rack at work for nearly 10 years (I got it in 2011 I think), but we stopped supporting IRIX a couple of years ago so there wasn't any reason for it to stay there any longer and so it's finally come home  



Specs: 8x 700MHz R16000, 16GB RAM, 4TB SATA XVM volume plus misc FC, Gbit and SCSI interfaces. And it has it's own L2 controller. It's a pretty decent compile and compute server as far as MIPS/IRIX systems go.

After a bit of a checkup and cleanup it will go into my own rack. When I shut it down it had 497 days of uptime and I don't think I'm going to beat that anytime soon because I don't plan on running it 24/7 at home.

[Irinikus]

Very nice!

Running 24/7 for 10 years shows the O350 hardware to be pretty stable, that's encouraging! (Seeing that our Tezro systems share the same hardware!)

[dexter1]

Gratz, Jan-Jaap!

Think of it being your "reward" for your loyal support :-)

[jan-jaap]

Gratz, Jan-Jaap!

Think of it being your "reward" for your loyal support :-)

Well, the system was always mine (I bought it and I paid for it). While it's great to have such a system just an SSH login away, the electricity bill exceeds €1000 / year so there's no way I will run it 24/7 at home. That's why it was hosted at work all those years, in exchange for letting the company use it from time to time for software support. But we don't support IRIX anymore (duh), and ever tightening IT security policies made it difficult to run my own pet project system at work.

So now it's back home. I have a remote controllable PDU in my 19" rack so I will be able to power it up on demand but it won't run 24/7 anymore.

Rack mounting the thing is a bit of a problem btw: the outer rails can be extended to max 69cm, but my vertical rack posts are 75cm apart :@  While it's possible to adjust the vertical posts, I'd have to empty the rack first, plus I'd have to adjust or replace several other things like the heavy duty sliding rails of the disk arrays and shelves.

So I ordered some rack rail extenders for the O350. I don't like them, but there's no way I'm taking the rack apart.

[jan-jaap]

So the rack rail extenders arrived and they were rubbish. So I manufactured something myself:





That's from a strip of 40x3mm aluminum and it's rigid and strong enough.



Inside the rack. Below another failed attempt at extending the rail

[BackPlaner]

Very enterprising!

[jan-jaap]

Final configuration:



Compared to before, I had to put the extra alu pieces on the outside of the rail in order to be able to slide the Origin all the way in. It's all pretty solid. If you ever need to rack an Origin in a standard rack (mine's an HP 10000 G2 series), this is what you should do.

[Irinikus]

It looks very neat!

[Intuition]

Oh man, that is super sweet.