On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:44, Teo Zenios wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat_at_computer-refuge.org>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:36 PM
> Subject: Re: why ?
>
> > On Saturday 17 January 2004 14:40, Teo Zenios wrote:
> > > Yea its nice having a machine that cost $10,000 new for $20 now
> > > or a $1M system for a few hundred if thats what you get into. My
> >
> > Or what cost over $2M new for $20....
> > http://www.ozonelair.com/sp/receipt.jpg
> >
> > BTW, That's my friend's machine.
> >
> > Now a days, we don't get quite as good of deals as we used to...
> >
> > Pat
>
> Don't think anything I have costs more then $10,000 new, but at least
> I can move them without a forklift and they run on 110vac. Exactly
> what machines was this $2,000,000 monster is there a pic of it
> somewhere?
It's (parts of and upgrades to) the original IBM RS/6000 SP that Purdue
purchased (on a grant I'm pretty sure) back in 1995 or so. (It's not
even "classic" yet!) There's a picture of what a frame of it looks
like on his web site. Try
http://www.ozonelair.com/sp/
The machine is mostly 66MHz POWER-2 thin and wide nodes, with 512MB ram
on the thins and 1GB on the wides.
And you don't *need* a forklift to move it, assuming you're willing to
take the nodes out of the frame. We didn't use a forklift to move it
or the NCR Worldmark 5100 cabinet we've got (look on his web site for
details on that machine). I think we paid a similar amount for one of
the cabinets from that monster. It cost $7M when new, and after moving
around parts to max out one cabinet (two nodes). They were 8 processor
nodes with 1GB RAM each. Now they're 32 processor nodes with 4GB ram
each. And, we bought 1.6TB of storage with it (before raid overhead)
for about $40.
Damn, to think how little we paid for that, I feel like I'm starting to
get some value back from these tuition dollars. : ) And, considering
they were both basically donated machines, I don't feel too bad about
it.
Pat
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