[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 01:01 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>   I believe all of the older ones require 3-phase power, which makes
>> them a bit of a pain...but even the very oldest, the G1 machines,
>> aren't all that big mainframe-wise.  One extra-super-deep (and very
>> heavy) rack for the CPU.
>
> As I'm sure you are aware, one rack doesn't mean it can't gobble down
> the electricity.  I mean, just look at a rack of densely packed P4s.
> Put a hundred of those in a rack, and you are talking something like
> 7k watts or more given off as heat from the CPUs alone, not to mention
> disks of chipsets, or the electricty used that isn't being converted 
> to heat.

   Of course...but that's less power than, say, an IBM 370/168 whose CPU 
is the size of a tractor trailer.  We're talking about *mainframes* 
here.

        -Dave

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