[geeks] Damn that is one big ass box

[Chris Byrne]

All,

I'm in the middle of an MSP project here at work, and we have Sun and
IBM submitting competitive bids for systems and software. Obviously I'm
very comfortable with Sun, and I made it clear to IBM that they were
going to have to do something special to win the business. I asked them
for an eval box to test AIX and DB/2 on (their proposed solution) and I
was expecting a B50 or something similar.

Their eval box arrived this morning. On a pallet. That weighed 300lbs.

Instead of the B50 I was expecting they sent me an RS/6000 F80 6x500
Rs64III, 16gb of ram,  200 some odd gigs of storage, and a 3153
terminal. At least that's what the packing slip said, I haven't powered
it up yet.=20

I think they took me seriously when I said they'd have to do something
special.

Now what do I do with the damned thing? It's got about 12 times the
power I was expecting, and threes no way I could stress it at all with
the load I'm planning on. Hmmm, any distributed computing clients for
AIX 4.3? Anyone want a shell account to play with the thing?

Chris Byrne