[rescue] If the price wouldnt be that high... Cray CS6400's

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> > Potential group buy by rescue members? If price is still high, could
> > wait and approach him after a no-bid auction.
> >
> > Note: none of the machines have memory, and I've seem to remember some
> > messages here stating UNICOS is unobtanium.
>
> Generally speaking, UNICOS isn't unobtanium.  You can just call Cray and
> buy it, with compilers, for about $20k, to my understanding.
>
> However, I believe the CS6400s use a bastardized form of SunOS, not
> Unicos, since these machines are sparc based massively parallel rather
> than SMP Vector machines (like the J90s).  I don't know how obtainable
> this is, since SGI sold this machine to Sun when SGI bought Cray (what
> did SGI want with a Sparc based SunOS machine?).

Do you know what the other massively parallel Cray machines run?  Like the
T3D and T3E?

Peace...  Sridhar