[Cialug] Slightly OT: Server Room Temperature

[Nathan Stien]

On 9/17/07, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
> You could just set the AC unit to keep the place a little on the cool
> side... if your sensors detect the temperature falls below 60deg, then
> start some large, cpu intensive tasks on all your servers to bring the
> temperature up to a safe margin.

Heh, I used to administrate a beowulf cluster at school, and
occasionally for kicks I tried to regulate the temperature by running
and halting my project like a thermostat...

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