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#1
January 12th, 2004, 03:22 PM
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| Cray on eBay I noticed this going up a few days back. Someone is selling a 1999 fully working Cray SV1 supercomputer on eBay. It started off at £100 (with a reserve), I was going to bid for a laugh but didn't get round to it. Anyway, it's currently at about £3900 with 14 hours to go if you're interested! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...gory=1479&rd=1
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#2
January 12th, 2004, 03:24 PM
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| The whole problem with these computers is operating environment. Most homes don't have the power to power them (most use 3 phase power), let alone the cooling environment for them. And, even if they did have the power, the cost just to keep it running and cool is huge. Brian
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January 12th, 2004, 03:40 PM
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| It would be cool though  I'd love to have it in my living room just so I could bring a linux geek friend of mine over and say, "oh yeah, we just got this Cray here. I installed Darwin on it and we use it for watching the Simpsons on divx".
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January 12th, 2004, 04:18 PM
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| Nah, what would be cool would be getting a C64 to run Darwin and play the Simpson's on DiVX Getting the Cray is just a matter of money, getting the C64 to work would be talent Brian
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#5
January 12th, 2004, 04:36 PM
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The problem isn't the software for me (I have a ton that'll run on that series of computer including IRIX 5.3 with XFS), it is the size (about half the height of a refrigerator) and the power needs. If I could get around those issues (and get my wife to okay it) I would have that system in a second. Here is what it looks like (different system, same form factor). |
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January 14th, 2004, 12:05 AM
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| 5000 Xserge G5s clustered would do the trick for me...<G>...If I ever win that big Powerball jackpot, I might just do it for kicks.
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