[geeks] Anybody can borrow me $10k? hehe....

[Scott Howard]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:18:44AM -0000, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> "The WildCat implementation on the 6800s is somewhat less sophisticated, says
> Perrenod, than it is on the 12Ks and 15Ks, which probably explains the pricing
> differences for WildCat interconnection cards on the machines. Sun Fire Link
> assemblies for the 6800 cost $56,000 a piece (you need one for each server in
> the cluster), and on the 12K and 15K machines, the Sun Fire Link assemblies
> cost over $100,000. The WildCat interconnect can, in theory, be added to the
> eight-way Sun Fire 3800 and twelve-way Sun Fire 4800 servers, but has not
> been."

And apparently ours for the lab arrived a week or so ago...   :)

  Scott