Power requirement for Athlon-MP diskless nodes

[Thomas R Boehme]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lindahl [mailto:lindahl at conservativecomputer.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: Re: Power requirement for Athlon-MP diskless nodes
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:40:43AM -0400, Thomas R Boehme wrote:
> 
> > We are currently planning to buy a new Athlon-MP cluster
> > I know AMD recommends a 460W power supply, but I am wondering if a less
> > powerful power supply (e.g. 300W) would be enough for a diskless node.
> Any
> > experiences or educated guesses?
> 
> A typical modern drive consumes six to eight watts.
> 

Well, what does that tell me? 
Modern SCSI drives consume considerably more on power up and I assume the
AMD recommendation is for a typical server with probably 4 SCSI drives, a
power consuming Geforce card, etc. and I guess that could amount to a (short
time) power usage of about 160W, but I don't know how they come up with
their recommendations. 
I simply wanted to know if somebody tested already tried a 300 W (or 350W,
400W) supply on a bare Athlon-MP system...

Bye, Thommy