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Serguei Patchkovskii patchkov at ucalgary.ca
Tue May 1 08:30:22 PDT 2001


On Tue, 1 May 2001, Bill Broadley wrote:
> Anyone have any total power usage numbers for a beowulf?

[...]

> I'm looking for actual/typical loads (useful for certain kinds
> of planning), not peak loads or anything related to whats printed
> on the powersupply (which I can look up myself).

For whatever it's worth, 106 alphas (EV56-500 in DPW/CPW 500au) with 
about 256Mbytes and a 4Gb hard drive (7200RPM) draw about 12 kilowatts 
at our typical load (100% CPU, little to none disk activity).

/Serge.P

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