12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
10:51 a.m.
On 10/12/2012 1:43 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/12/2012 12:23 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
No, you are about fifteen years off. The VAX 8000 series was
discontinued well before the design cycle for this Cray had begun.
This is a post-XMP Cray PVP system. It is a standalone computer that
uses SCSI and/or FibreChannel to connect to its directly-attached disks.
The OS is Unicos, which is UNIX. It runs directly on the machine and
you log directly into it via telnet or ssh.
For an XMP-architecture machine, everything you said would be correct,
but those machines (and the way they were run) were LONG gone before
this relatively-late-model machine was introduced.
-Dave
do you have any of the "xmp" class systems?
Power
supply requirements are a bit out there for home based
collectors, and what software would you run on it (I assume everything
was custom per order)?
Right, on the nameplate is shows 68 KW electronic dissipation, then you
have to
supply water chilling for a 68 KW load. Then,. you need a pretty massive
support computer to run this thing, I think the last ones were VAX
8000-series
machines. They had a stock OS, booted from the support computer, which
also
provided disk, tape, graphics, etc.