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On Saturday 17 January 2004 18:44, Teo Zenios wrote: It's (parts of and upgrades to) the original IBM RS/6000 SP that Purdue purchased (on a grant I'm pretty sure) back in 1995 or so. (It's not even "classic" yet!) There's a picture of what a frame of it looks like on his web site. Try http://www.ozonelair.com/sp/ The machine is mostly 66MHz POWER-2 thin and wide nodes, with 512MB ram on the thins and 1GB on the wides. And you don't *need* a forklift to move it, assuming you're willing to take the nodes out of the frame. We didn't use a forklift to move it or the NCR Worldmark 5100 cabinet we've got (look on his web site for details on that machine). I think we paid a similar amount for one of the cabinets from that monster. It cost $7M when new, and after moving around parts to max out one cabinet (two nodes). They were 8 processor nodes with 1GB RAM each. Now they're 32 processor nodes with 4GB ram each. And, we bought 1.6TB of storage with it (before raid overhead) for about $40. Damn, to think how little we paid for that, I feel like I'm starting to get some value back from these tuition dollars. : ) And, considering they were both basically donated machines, I don't feel too bad about it. Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/