my new toy (large pics)
 

just picked up this thing from my buddy that got hired at google, he said that it was one of his signing bonuses.

ive not been able to find the motherboard or ram online, but im sure someone here might be able to... im trying to figure out how much the mb and ram is worth.
This is what he told me, not sure if its exactly correct...
dual core, 2terabyte, 16GB ram

motherboard says:
Gigabyte GA-9IVDP
ram says
Southland G4GGL3-007521
1GBT-RD226EB-G4GGL3
NOC 1GB ECC REG 64X4 NAN
30001476-16
MIS020974

thanks for your help
original pics here
http://www.twobasshit.com/pics/googleserver/2.jpg
http://www.twobasshit.com/pics/googleserver/1.jpg
http://www.twobasshit.com/pics/googleserver/3.jpg

Sounds and looks CRAZY. Good luck with that mess of technology.

Ironically, prototypes are like antiques -- value is more a matter of optimal buyer-seller matching. Looks like funky shit, though.

16GB Ram?

:hitit

yeah i see 8 gig sticks... but he told me 16 gig

i need a 110 powersupply, then im going to fire this bad boy up

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Planning on taking over the world with that thing?

Those ram chips looks to big for 1gb, its probably 8*2g chips.

But anyways, thast one nifty computer. Wouldnt mind having one of those.

holy fuck crap

That is a very strange signing bonus, I wonder if they are trying to get rid of their old machines and have run out of things to give new employees?

and here I thought my Pentium D 930 3ghz with 2gigs of ram was powerfull lol

Man, that's one man dream computer ! Why not keep it for you for at least 10 years? :P

Damn that is going to be a beast!!!

that's a pimp ride!!

that thing is crazy. let us know how it goes when you get it running

Matt

that thing is MAD

how much do you ask for it ?
:pimp

:1orglaugh Looks wicked! tell us when you takeoff....

I could use that. :thumbsup

shit, nice signing bonus lol

I found something very close: GA-9IVDT-CN


* A Dual-Processor based platform supports the New Intelhahaha174; Xeonhahaha8482; processor (800MHz FSB) with the new Extended Memory 64 Technology
* SATA Host RAID feature (RAID 0, 1) enabled to fill the needs of most internal RAID installation - secures platform availability and data safety
* New technology of PCI-E to dual Gigabit Ethernet, better bandwidth and performance than legacy I/F
* Capable to support SI/OEM projects with advanced IPMI V.1.5 management function with Gigabyte Server Management Utility for remote management and console redirection


Based on the indications this is a server motherboard rather than a personal PC style arrangement... you might want to find a nice rack mount box for it and turn it into a nice powerful server to work with, as it is certainly a very powerful board.

Alex

don't melt your desk trying to run that thing...or worse...burn down your house

the power supply is crazy.. what are each of those drives?

that looks crazy

the RAM has printed "Google" right on it - do they get their own chips designed?? funny

hmmm google getting into the hardware game?

I'll bet it's as noisy as a friggin' 747 takin' off -- :1orglaugh

http://www.giga-byte.com/Server/Prod...erverBoard.htm

That is a list of their server boards... I like to google brand ram... that is pretty funny.

Alex

thats a factory there?

the drives are Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GIG (x6)

Thanks for your help RawAlex... its denifetly a server board... i guess its a prototype or exclusive to google...

if anyone wants to take a ride on this thing to mars let me know

be carefu with the wires. you might get short circuit

Kick ass stuff there man! Congrats. :thumbsup

kick ass server, can i have it?

damn that is awesome, does it have a built-in fleshlight too?

That thing is kick ass!!

Doesn't need one. :)

my poor little laptop had it's dinky go from and outty to an inny when it saw that ... talk about pc-nv... ouch ....i heard NASA is looking for an upgrade ..maybe they would be interested ..

damn, are you taking offers on that?

Hey tell me pls! U will do video editing on this monster?:thumbsup

no that is stupid

good gawd...

My bet would be that it is a special board made for google specifically for search or something... maybe the type of board used in their server clusters. It would seem to be specially made to communicate quickly to two sides of the world (one lan card to the cluster, one lan card to the world, perhaps) and the sata drives in a raid 0 raid 1 would likely be good for storing short term results / caching future pages. Tons of ram, tons of processing...

Could also be a "googlebot" board.

Alex

holly shit, why would they give out computers that powerful ! wow. 16gig ram, i was happy with my 1gig ..

Nice one.. how fast you think pacman will run on that ?

yes... some on another board they were thinking that if the google bot software is on the drives, that might be worth more than the hardware


i think i might list one ram stick on ebay and see if i get knock on the door from the google squad

how sure are you, your friend is telling the truth? dont want to get caught holding the goods if he stole it. :(

But if its for real, thats a sweet setup.