[ale] [OT] SGI supercomputer

[James P. Kinney III]

My apologies to the group for getting the massively-parallel hardware
heads all in a tizzy. :) I am always looking at hardware like this and
have managed to accumulate a small, personal stash of dual machines (x1
dual R12k 369MHz Octane w/2G RAM, x2 dual R10k 280MHz Origin 200's with
craylink cable, x4 dual P3 1.4GHz 1G RAM 1U, x1 dual 1.6 GHz Opteron 2G
RAM) that is currently a major component of my hearing loss.

This is one of those occasions when I wish I had access to a larger
space with few worries about the power bill. I've got at least 3
projects in my head and 1 partially in code that could utilize that kind
of horsepower. My ad-hoc cluster runs at such disparate speeds that
tightly coupled calculations are impossible.

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 00:36 -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> James,
> You shouldn't have posted this.  I am all in a dither now.  I could use 
> it since we have codes that only run on 64bit IRIX.  However, it's 
> bulky, may or may not really operate, and the hardware support cost per 
> year would be expensive.  I'm sure a SGI reseller will up the bidding 
> near the close.  It's worth about $20K to someone who can use and 
> support it.  Sometimes you need the hardware when the software isn't 
> modifiable.
> 
> I'm going to go to bed now and forget about this.....
> Dow
> 
> 
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> >Gee! For a current bid price of $500 it's a steal. Too bad the AC power
> >will cost $1k/month to run the pile.
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/SGI-Origin-2000-256-x-250MHz-64GB-Ram-Supercomputer-Lot_W0QQitemZ5803925944QQcategoryZ11223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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