rugby's new computer for 8,500 dollars Cray J90

[el]

on ebay cheap! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1279164540

[Amedeo602]

ohhh, if only I could fit 8 Palominos in one box....talk about some SERIOUS folding!

[rugby]

Yeah, I wouldn't even know how to boot the thing! The auction lists it as performing megaflops. That's not too fast, gigaflops being the unit of measure now. That must be a typo.

Wait, the reserve was met at 8,500$ It's got to be an old one.

Still a goody however.

[el]

yeah it is old but I believe you can use the SV1ex modules in it! I don't know how much that would cost but probably at least 10,000 each so 8x10,000+8,500 and you have a nice little Cray for 88,500!!! *cough* el dies while opening Credit Card bill.

[Crash893]

the folding or seti guys sould get to gether and buy it if every one put in 10 bucks or so you could do it im sure some one has room for it.

[Gresyth]

But can it be Overclocked?

[Maddman]

Here is what it is

16 Processors
Overall peak performance: 3.2 Gigaflops
Main memory: 8 GBytes
Operating System: UNICOS
Joined Users: app. 1200

It is an air cooled machine using betwen 8 - 16 dec alpha chips.

It uses the Unicos OS witch relates to unix in the same way that linux does.

[Crash893]

do you think it can only use that os

if you got linux on it im sure it would rock ass

anyword on whos going to buy it


start the overclockers fund
ill throw in 10bucks

[el]

send the money to my paypal account. LOL

we need people to get jobs at Cray and then they can get new stuff free like TC and Wild_Andy_C.


I may go to tour the NCI supercomputing center when I get back from vacation. they have three 32SV proc machines working together for 96!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will see if they will let me drool on it.

[Crash893]

ill do it if you can get some other people to do it too

another good idea is to make a "stone soup" or "borg"computer

here is a link.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html

ive got some stuff to donate.

[Crash893]

bump

[jbell]

gimme the new SUN 15k mainframe

106 processors and 250 terabytes of memory!!!!

and all that for a cool 1.4mill

[Crash893]

if you got it where would you put it?

how much power does it need

[M@€$†®Ö™]

Originally posted by crash893
ill do it if you can get some other people to do it too

another good idea is to make a "stone soup" or "borg"computer

here is a link.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html

ive got some stuff to donate.

Very informative link and reading ! Thank You !

Maestro

[el]

I second that very good read! I love SA they had a kick ass article on the blue LEDs too. do a search and read both.

[Crash893]

popular science has a good one on blue leds and lasers as well


do you think the stone soup is something we could do

you know every one on this form has extra stuff laying around

im sure the oc teams would like to have it.

can folding or seti run in linux or unix?

[el]

I am pretty sure both can run on linux but I might try a little stone soup at my house. I only have 9machines but I will start with 3 adn then keep adding until all nine are working together.

[Crash893]

well you dont live to far away so if you need parts

ive got a couple cdroms
one old chassie with a 33mhz cpu and board no hdd
i can get my hands on a amdk6 300mhz cpu
and an old 10 baset 12 port hub
some heatsinks
the mobo for the cpu ( think i might be fryied)
fddx2
old ass hard drive 202mb
and a old case with psu dont know the watage
and a bunch (3)of old hdd that are small like 100 mb or so other than that i dont know anything about them


also i know once a year my boyscout troop has a fleemarket and people always donate all there old comptuer stuff ( along with other stuff)

if this thing gets going ill keep as much as i can of that.