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(Don't run Irix , just want to make the $20,000 - 501.00.  Baby needs a new
pair of shoes - no. really. my baby *really* does need a pair of shoes).

Greg

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On Behalf Of James P.
To: ale at ale.org
Kinney III
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:51 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] SGI supercomputer

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