Showing off my hard work!

[mrbios]

Thought i would come and show off what all the kit my work have bought from novatech has gone into :D :

This is the second building of 3 that we have had to fit out, the first was alot more stressful than this one (163 PCs on the first stage, 53 PCs on this one)

We mount all the kit on MDF boards which slide into cupboards which saves money on cases in the long run, also makes life easier when it comes to changing dead equipment

Majority built:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2i0vkle.jpg

In construction:
http://i43.tinypic.com/29eje47.jpg

53 TFTs which should be fun to unbox:
http://i39.tinypic.com/der80y.jpg

Networking is still being terminated so we're imaging machines locally, my little work station:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2eefvkj.jpg

My colleague doing a pose for the camera (and part of my finger :x):
http://i41.tinypic.com/2dse6h5.jpg

An example of the boxes we sit the PCs in, cables go up the back through a 92mm hole:
http://i42.tinypic.com/an09pd.jpg

44 Imaged PCs ready to go:
http://i43.tinypic.com/28by1x4.jpg
^ before anyone says anything, we know alot are wonky, thats my managers fault for measuring the MDF boards wrong, only way to get all 4 corners screwed was to put them on a wonk >_<

Mess http://forum.overclock3d.net/images/smilies/biggrin.gif:
http://i41.tinypic.com/1jfcz.jpg

Seeing as its partially relevant my office PC and the servers (thought i would post these seeing as the pictures are there):
http://i44.tinypic.com/2wd2ipt.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/w8kxsn.jpg (quite old, alot of changes to whats seen there now)

[GIBBO]

HI m8

Looks good!

However this is kind of worrying:-
http://i39.tinypic.com/der80y.jpg

Is the hard hat there for when you get an awkward PC that wont work you just headbut it in anger. :D

[mrbios]

HI m8

Looks good!

However this is kind of worrying:-
http://i39.tinypic.com/der80y.jpg

Is the hard hat there for when you get an awkward PC that wont work you just headbut it in anger. :D

Haha, you never know what might hit you on the head working in that place, we've had stones thrown at us before now! (school kids, aren't they lovely? ;))

Real reason though is that the building we're in is still a building site, so we have to abide by health and safety even though the section we walk through and work in is finished with no other work going on

[Kylel6]

Nice work, but what's it actually for? Folding farm? Or make shift servers?

[Mr Grapes]

sweet!
how do you deal with cooling in the cupboards?

[Stickyjam]

sweet!
how do you deal with cooling in the cupboards?

thats what i was half thinking, but then i presumed there some older chip and cpu HSF blows enough air around?

or passive?

[Kevster]

Nice work, but what's it actually for? Folding farm? Or make shift servers?

Yeah! What's it for?

[mrbios]

It's for a school, sadly nothing as interesting as servers or folding farms :p

As for cooling, the cupboards are having a hole drilled in the front for a fan as an intake, then there is a grill on the side to allow air to flow out of, sadly while i prefer negative air pressure there was no way to do it that way around without it looking messy

[TaKeN]

Krikey.. thats a whole lot of pc components :D

Rather you than me sticking em all together :o

[GeordieNo1]

Your gonna have to change yer handle to mrbuilder!

Thanx for sharing, interesting indeed :)

[Lemon]

Impressive, how long did it take to put them all togeather?

[system7]

Amazing pictures! Google used to rest server motherboards on cardboard on shelves when they started out.

But is anyone else thinking "Fire Hazard" and "Radio Interference" ? lol

[mrbios]

Impressive, how long did it take to put them all togeather?

Took somewhere between 3-6 hours worth of work to get them all built (the longest process seemed to be removing all the packaging)

About the same to get them all imaged as we had to do them one by one due to having no network connectivity until tomorrow

We're now in the process of putting them all into the cupboards in the rooms there going into which has taken quite a while so far as we have to cable tie everything so kids can't pull on things, tidy the cables in the boxes as much as we can due to airflow not being so good as it is, setup the relevant bios settings (power on on power fail, wake on lan etc) and then the final stage was to newSID them

Once we finally have them all in place (about 50% of the way there so far) we just have to change the name depending on what room they are in and add them to the domain and bobs your uncle jobs done :D

[mrbios]

Not last summer but the summer before we were fitting out a much larger building with new PCs, this was the production line from that one...

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7968/picture2sj7.jpg

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2682/picture3qs0.jpg

That building was a total of 163 PCs and took us all summer (6 weeks) to get sorted (all the IT rooms were upstairs >_<)

[henz]

Lol... I haven't seen that many PCs in one place since I visited Novatech in the summer. I dread to think how much they all cost!

[Lemon]

Now that is cool :cool:

[speedyj]

All we had was a Research Machines 380Z when I was at school :D

[beeniemac]

What about earthing and fire prevention?
Has this kind of setup passed a H&S inspection or whatever?