11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
10:50 p.m.
On 10/12/2012 01:22 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The cooling is the tough part for a T94, otherwise it's not too bad.
I've gotten several models of Cray running. They are complicated
machines, but they present a nice challenge with an excellent payoff.
The uniprocessor variant of the T90 is air-cooled. I wonder if it's
possible to downgrade the cooling of the multiprocessor T94.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
I am sure
there was in the tech's tool box. The guy that came with the
support contract. If that's original touch up paint I bet some someone
at Cray stuck it there to make his job easier. It looks odd though.
Everything seems to shiny too. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it had
all been repainted. Sticking a bottle of touch up paint in cars is what
the custom cars usually do. Anyone else seen Cray touch up paint ? Seems
like we would have seen a bottle on ebay by now.
My wife was looking over my shoulder when I brought the eBay listing for
the T94 up. She said "only $12K for that?" I replied that if what one
was after was a running T94, that $12K was merely the tip of the iceberg.
Consider the power supplies, cooling, peripherals and the probability
that the darned thing doesn't work (where does one find parts, even for
a 90's era Cray), one could plunk down a fair amount of cash to get this
piece of iron running.