Speed-Assembling Servers 160
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Nieriko writes "The Planet is holding competitions to speed-assemble rack-mounted servers. It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons. There is a video on YouTube about this incredible contest. Looks pretty challenging."
Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. (Score:1, Informative)
Well, his time is a little off, because the guy's first attempt didn't register on his iphone...
Herpes without cares? (Score:1, Informative)
With a lanyard their shirts probably don't read like they wanted to.
Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. (Score:2, Informative)
On top of that, look at the blue snap-in parts. This is a Dell. Hardly a single screw to bother with in there even if he did it from individual parts. Motherboard, drives, fan, even the CPU in many cases, just snaps in place.
I can get a desktop running Windows in under 15 mi (Score:3, Informative)
I can go from a collection of parts to a desktop running Windows in under 15 minutes using a prepared disk image on a USB stick.
Servers are actually a bit easier to deal with than that, since the layout is more open. On a Tyan GT20 (a barebones server platform) there's probably about three minutes of work involved in sticking in the CPUs, RAM and hard drives. If I had a prepared disk image for one I could probably get one of those running in 10 - 15 minutes. The hardest part of the whole thing would be getting the machine into the rack.
Re:Uh yeah... very speedy. (Score:5, Informative)
Seriously, you couldn't come up with something original?
latter-day marines? (Score:5, Informative)
"It's like watching latter-day Marines field-strip and assemble their weapons."
umm...no, it was not like that at all. It was more like watching a guy plug in a usb cable.
Re:That's not a rack-mounted server (Score:2, Informative)