Hello everybody,
as there were a few posts about HP Convex multiprocessor computers on the
list last week, I thought I'd jump in and ask a few questions for the job
I'm currently doing a few hours a week.
The University of Erlangen (Northern Bavaria) has a collection of computing
equipment and the like, which is run by a former boss of the regional
computing centre. When I showed up there at the beginning of my Electrical
Engineering studies and had a talk with him, he offered me a student job -
which I subsequently accepted.
A few months ago we got a Convex SPP-1600 which was decommissioned by the
computing center due to a hardware fault (rumour: Bad PSU in one cabinet).
This is a 3-cabinet unit and we would like to show part of it as an exhibit
- since the entire computer is too big to fit in our showroom, we would like
to set up only one unit and put the remaining two into storage.
The question now is: Could this sucker be reconfigured in a way which would
allow the separated unit (obviously one with a sound PSU...) to actually
operate, using the original HP frontend machine? I understand the memory
interconnects between the processors are fairly complex so I fear it's not
just a matter of "un-plug and play"...
We haven't found any documentation about such reconfiguration jobs and we
think it might not even been handed out to customers. Calling HP Field
Service is obviously out of question (obsolete machine, constrained budget),
so any information about this is greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely
--
Arno Kletzander
Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen
www.iser.uni-erlangen.de
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Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 01:57:55 BST