Screws In My Coffee

I am planning my next server.  I want to build a server that is optimized for running virtualized computers and large disk storage. I’m using this post to take some notes. With all of this information in one place my goal is for it to help me design my next computer. There is a lot of information about computer parts on the Internet and this is the source of this information.

Some of my friends have asked why I build my own computers and I always reply because it is fun and I learn a lot. I rarely document my design process so here is a place to watch how I do it.

Intel® Xeon® Processor 7000 Sequence

These processors are for servers

I will go with the cheapest 45nm quad core with 12mb L3 cache, the Xeon E7430.  Now I’ll search for a motherboard.

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 Sequence

These processors are for workstations.

Processor Number?	Cache	Clock Speed	Front Side Bus	System Type	Power	Dual-core	Quad-core
45-nm technology
X5492	12MB	3.40 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	150W
X5470	12MB	3.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
X5482	12MB	3.20 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	120W
X5472	12MB	3.00 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	120W
E5472	12MB	3.00 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
E5462	12MB	2.80 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
X5460	12MB	3.16 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
X5450	12MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	120W
E5450	12MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
E5440	12MB	2.83 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5430	12MB	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5430	12MB	2.66 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5420	12MB	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5420	12MB	2.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5410	12MB	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	50W
E5410	12MB	2.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
E5405	12MB	2.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
X5272	6MB	3.40 GHz	1600 MHz	DP	80W
X5270	6MB	3.50 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
X5260	6MB	3.33 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	80W
L5240	6MB	3.00 GHz	1333 MHz	DP	40W
E5205	6MB	1.86 GHz	1066 MHz	DP	65W

For a 3D expert system Intel recommends this Xeon X5482 configuration.

The motherboard is a dual processor with LGA771 socket design.

ASUS DSEB-DG/SAS

High Power Efficiency Platform with SAS Support Ready

ASUS new server board DSEB-DG/SAS is based on 45nm Intel® Xeon® 5400/5300/5200/5100 processor with the green design of 90%+ power efficiency. Featured with leading-edge technology including FSB 1600MHz, FB-DIMM 800MHz, PCI-Express Gen2 x16 and SAS support, the DSEB-DG/SAS is the most out-performance server board which is ideal for enterprise-class and computing demanding applications.

Asus DSEB-DG/SAS mother board

Motherboard Specifications

Here is a specification for a Dell server.

This post is about using a lot of Google stuff.  There are a lot of folks that are calling applications like Picasa and Chrome Cloud applications.  I am using Chrome for the first time to write in my Blog.  I also used Picasa on my computer to organize my images and upload them to web albums.  I can embed Flash slide shows in my posts with out doing any programming.  Check out the images from my trip to the Cadillac Ranch.

I am planning on upgrading my free Google storage account so that I can load all of my 21GB of images on Google servers.  Thsi will be a backup and a way to publish my images when I want to on my Blog or other web sites.

I 2 miles in 15 minutes

Go to Sylvia’s Blog.  In the search box enter garden and see what happens.

I created a custom Google.com search engine.  It searches across all of the domains that we have and puts the results on a page with other related banners.  The more content that we add to the pages the more words will be valid in the search.

The custom search can be revised or I can create others.  Here is a list of the web sites.

http://austingardencoach.com

http://austingardencoaching.com

http://launiart.com/blog

http://launiart.com

http://lonnie.wormley.org

http://sylvia.wormley.org/blog

http://sylvia.wormley.org

http://www.wormley.org

I spent the July 4th weekend setting up Google Analytics and Google Adsense on the web sites listed above.

I was working on my wife’s blog and decided to update the look and feel of my own. I selected a theme that was originally designed by Benedikt Rieke-Benninghaus. The theme name: Dynamic-Vision 10. The theme URI: http://benediktrb.de. It is cool that Sylvia is getting into blogging and we have a similar theme on our sites.

Here is my original theme during 2005-2006: I took the banner with my camera. I got a cup of cold day old coffee and dumped some screws in it and started shooting pictures with my Canon 10D.

Here is my next theme during 2006-2007: I got the name for this blog from a friend that I worked with when I was in the Unification Church. His name was Walter Frank and if I remember correctly he would joke about screws in his coffee. I started writing a book of poems and titled it Screws in my Coffee.

Here is my current theme for summer 2008: So now I have revised my blog theme to a lighter bigger font. I am not sure why I picked the black background of the previous theme. I usually do not like black web pages. Anyway this layout looks really cool to me. I spent most of the day working on Sylvia’s blog and then decided to use the theme on my blog.