• What in the world is this?
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I recently bought an Appro Xtreme server on eBay for $30. Got it today, and it seems like it may be worth quite a bit more than what I paid for. It's an Appro XS7520-224 Rev 2 Tried searching for it, but I can't find the model anywhere. The server itself seems to be a purely custom server dedicated to processing or such. It has a dual port InfiniBand 4x HCA, and some sort of co processor attached.. Has 2 Xeon SL7ZK's and only 2gb of ram. The part that confuses me is that there is no power, Ethernet, VGA, etc on the back.. Just two of these big connectors. I have no idea what it is, or how to use it.. Anyone know what this could be?: [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/31679.png[/IMG] And in it's entirety: [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/f1de2.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/2f28b.png[/IMG] There is a label on the connector housing that says '05134X MOLEX0752200072'... Which brings up nothing on Google.
[QUOTE=Joannou1;42323788]I recently bought an Appro Xtreme server on eBay for $30. Got it today, and it seems like it may be worth quite a bit more than what I paid for. It's an Appro XS7520-224 Rev 2 Tried searching for it, but I can't find the model anywhere. The server itself seems to be a purely custom server dedicated to processing or such. It has a dual port InfiniBand 4x HCA, and some sort of co processor attached.. Has 2 Xeon SL7ZK's and only 2gb of ram. The part that confuses me is that there is no power, Ethernet, VGA, etc on the back.. Just two of these big connectors. I have no idea what it is, or how to use it.. Anyone know what this could be?: [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/31679.png[/IMG] And in it's entirety: [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/f1de2.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://a.gld.bz/c/2f28b.png[/IMG] There is a label on the connector housing that says '05134X MOLEX0752200072'... Which brings up nothing on Google.[/QUOTE] Thos look to be older molex terminal blocks. Basically yes, this is a custom server someone built from scratch. and years ago... Those terminal blocks are meant for the server to be hard wired into and electrical box. you put the electrical wires right into them. The issue with it is there is no fail safe precautions that a PSU would have these days. The person obviously didnt care about surges or anything of that sort.
[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;42324284]Thos look to be older molex terminal blocks. Basically yes, this is a custom server someone built from scratch. and years ago... Those terminal blocks are meant for the server to be hard wired into and electrical box. you put the electrical wires right into them. The issue with it is there is no fail safe precautions that a PSU would have these days. The person obviously didnt care about surges or anything of that sort.[/QUOTE] Actually those look more like connectors to plug into a backplane which probably has it's own power supply, it is definitely not mains and you definitely dont stick your wires right into those headers.
It's a blade server, it's supposed to go into a chassis that does the power, ethernet, etc. You're not going to get that running without finding what the original backplane is and then getting one of the chassis.
About the only thing you could do is pull the CPUs/RAM and stick them in a different server. It really wouldn't be worth it though, they're just 3.4 GHz Netburst Xeons and have a 110W TDP each. They're inefficient, power hungry and furnaces. Depending on what the RAM is though, you might be able to sell it for more than you paid for the entire thing.
Oh well. Shame they used stuff that is nearly impossible to obtain... I think I will make my 30 bucks back from it.. The InfiniBand card in it is worth around 100 bucks, so that's nice.
[QUOTE=Joannou1;42330368]Oh well. Shame they used stuff that is nearly impossible to obtain... I think I will make my 30 bucks back from it.. The InfiniBand card in it is worth around 100 bucks, so that's nice.[/QUOTE] Everybody should use Infiniband. Install Infaniband on everything. Wingless will agree. Infiniband is the best bang for your Infiniband buck.
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