[SunRescue] Cheap big iron

[Hatle, Steven J.]

Haven't had a chance to research- what kind of OS runs on this guy? I can
imagine it's not a stock *nix :-)

Is this thing really free for the taking? I agree- this is the cooler
looking box. It would look good as a _big_ brother to my NeXT Cube!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: John Duksta [mailto:jduksta at genuity.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:45 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Cheap big iron



Yeah, I was thinking of borrowing a friends truck and
heading over to pick it up. But, I just don't think I
could convince the other folks in the condo assoc to
let me take up half the basement with it. :)

Plus, what the heck would I do with it? I don't have
a lot of weather/earthquake simulation work to do :)

Jon - While the CM-5 is cool because it has the 96 SS2's,
I think I would actually prefer the CM-2 (or CM-1) as I
see them as much more aesthetically pleasing with the
Hypercube design. Come one, anyone can slap together a
bunch of racks, but a 5ft x 5ft x 5ft cube with the cool
curved storage array... Now that's sexy!

-john

At 12:26 PM 4/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Ah man.  Those babies are awesome.  Doesn't everyone need a machine with
>2^16 CPUs?  The have 4096 blinking lights on the front to indicate the
>activity of each CPU chip (each CPU chip has 16 CPUs built into it).  I've
>always wanted one.  Wonder if a local univ. would accept it as a
>donation...
>
>--
>Joshua Boyd
>
>On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, John Duksta wrote:
>
> >
> > Speaking of big iron... I heard tell of a Thinking Machines CM-2
> > that was free for the taking from someone in the vicinity of MIT.
> > Now that's a cool machine... lots o' blinkenlights.
> >
> > For those who aren't familiar with the CM-2:
> > http://mission.base.com/tamiko/cm/cm-image.html
> >
> > -john
> >
> > At 05:09 PM 4/5/2001 -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1226966126
> > >
> > >This machine is currently under 100 dollars for a 10 proc machine.
Pick
> > >up in VA.  Only problem is it requires a 30A 120V feed.  Darn it.

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