Downsizing a Convex SPP1600?

Hello everybody, as there were a few posts about HP Convex multiprocessor computers on the list last week, I thought I'd jump in and ask a few questions for the job I'm currently doing a few hours a week. The University of Erlangen (Northern Bavaria) has a collection of computing equipment and the like, which is run by a former boss of the regional computing centre. When I showed up there at the beginning of my Electrical Engineering studies and had a talk with him, he offered me a student job - which I subsequently accepted. A few months ago we got a Convex SPP-1600 which was decommissioned by the computing center due to a hardware fault (rumour: Bad PSU in one cabinet). This is a 3-cabinet unit and we would like to show part of it as an exhibit - since the entire computer is too big to fit in our showroom, we would like to set up only one unit and put the remaining two into storage. The question now is: Could this sucker be reconfigured in a way which would allow the separated unit (obviously one with a sound PSU...) to actually operate, using the original HP frontend machine? I understand the memory interconnects between the processors are fairly complex so I fear it's not just a matter of "un-plug and play"... We haven't found any documentation about such reconfiguration jobs and we think it might not even been handed out to customers. Calling HP Field Service is obviously out of question (obsolete machine, constrained budget), so any information about this is greatly appreciated. Yours sincerely -- Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen www.iser.uni-erlangen.de "Sie haben neue Mails!" - Die GMX Toolbar informiert Sie beim Surfen! Jetzt aktivieren unter http://www.gmx.net/info