17 Dec
2018
17 Dec
'18
4:27 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
Wikipedia reports there is some variability in ES45
models, including
number of CPU and amount of memory. Any idea what model/spec these are?
If I recall correctly the ES45s each have 2 CPUs. The three ES45s
are not intentical, the one that was purchased first had a CPU upgrade
after a couple years but I do not recall either part number. I have no
idea what the other two have for CPUs. Two of them have 32Gbyte of RAM,
the cold spare is unknown.
Also: ?...The AlphaServer SC was a supercomputer
constructed from a set of
These were single computers that happen to be in the same rack. Two of
them have the special HP cluster card whose name and number I forget so they
were formed into a TruCluster once upon a time.
I hope hard enough that this cluster gets saved that
if no-one else comes
forward, I?d like to be notified?.I?m not certain what I could arrange,
but the thought of running my own personal Alpha supercomputer ? wow. Not
sure how to solve the license issue though. I assume OpenVMS doesn?t
support that level of parallelization?
I assume that VMS does support that level of parallelization. Anything
Tru64 Unix does VMS does better. Anything Linux does Tru64 Unix does
better.
Have I made my bigotry clear?
You will seriously raise your electric bill and somewhat lower your
heating bill. All of this hardware is 120V single phase but it would
like a couple circuit breakers all to itself.
--
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Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
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