* [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
@ 2000-09-03 21:51 James A. Robinson
2000-09-06 7:22 ` Nigel Roles
2000-09-06 7:25 ` Lucio De Re
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: James A. Robinson @ 2000-09-03 21:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Plan 9 Mailing List
I wonder if the Bell Labs folks ever considered porting
the CPU server code to something like one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
=)
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-03 21:51 [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer James A. Robinson
@ 2000-09-06 7:22 ` Nigel Roles
2000-09-06 7:25 ` Lucio De Re
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Nigel Roles @ 2000-09-06 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
I wonder if you have to sign an NDA to get the details on it's vga
card?
> I wonder if the Bell Labs folks ever considered porting
> the CPU server code to something like one of these?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
>
>
> =)
>
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-03 21:51 [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer James A. Robinson
2000-09-06 7:22 ` Nigel Roles
@ 2000-09-06 7:25 ` Lucio De Re
2000-09-06 20:36 ` Boyd Roberts
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Lucio De Re @ 2000-09-06 7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:51:59PM -0700, James A. Robinson wrote:
>
> I wonder if the Bell Labs folks ever considered porting
> the CPU server code to something like one of these?
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
>
And then, as suggested here a while back, make the thing publicly
accessible. The power consumption of such a beast has got to be
phenomenal. But maybe the NSF will fund it?
++L <nice footwarmer for 9-fans!>
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 7:25 ` Lucio De Re
@ 2000-09-06 20:36 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2000-09-06 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
> The power consumption of such a beast has got to be
> phenomenal.
and the maintenance? it's gonna break one day.
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 22:02 ` James A. Robinson
@ 2000-09-06 22:14 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2000-09-06 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
From: James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>
>
> I bet it was Penn and Teller...
no, but they were around. i got this immortal quote from
lou reed, thanks to rob and penn:
always go for overkill
rawb, you and your aussie friends...
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 21:59 ` rob pike
2000-09-06 22:02 ` James A. Robinson
@ 2000-09-06 22:11 ` Boyd Roberts
1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2000-09-06 22:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
From: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
>
> That's fluorinert all right. But it wasn't me.
>
> -rob
oh yes it was, rob. i remember.
'round the time you were writing acme IIRC.
and yes, i remember the car ride back from ny with bob.
not one of the cleverest things i'd done...
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 21:59 ` rob pike
@ 2000-09-06 22:02 ` James A. Robinson
2000-09-06 22:14 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-09-06 22:11 ` Boyd Roberts
1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: James A. Robinson @ 2000-09-06 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> > well you i told you not too. and it didn't feel like water and
> > it wasn't coffee. so what was it? i believe it came in 18x18x18"
> > clear(ish) plastic containers. does that refresh your memory?
>
> That's fluorinert all right. But it wasn't me.
>
> -rob
I bet it was Penn and Teller...
(http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/wired-penn.html)
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
@ 2000-09-06 21:59 ` rob pike
2000-09-06 22:02 ` James A. Robinson
2000-09-06 22:11 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: rob pike @ 2000-09-06 21:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
>
> well you i told you not too. and it didn't feel like water and
> it wasn't coffee. so what was it? i believe it came in 18x18x18"
> clear(ish) plastic containers. does that refresh your memory?
>
That's fluorinert all right. But it wasn't me.
-rob
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 21:47 rob pike
@ 2000-09-06 21:52 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2000-09-06 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
From: rob pike <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> > yeah, i remember rob pouring flourinert all over my hands.
>
> I'm sure you remember that, but I never did it. I've never seen
> fluorinert out of the bottle.
>
well you i told you not too. and it didn't feel like water and
it wasn't coffee. so what was it? i believe it came in 18x18x18"
clear(ish) plastic containers. does that refresh your memory?
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
@ 2000-09-06 21:47 rob pike
2000-09-06 21:52 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: rob pike @ 2000-09-06 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> yeah, i remember rob pouring flourinert all over my hands.
I'm sure you remember that, but I never did it. I've never seen
fluorinert out of the bottle.
-rob
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
2000-09-06 13:09 jmk
@ 2000-09-06 21:45 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Boyd Roberts @ 2000-09-06 21:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
From: <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> We used to have our own Cray, it lived in a room 3 doors down the corridor
> from my office (still called 'the Cray room'.
yeah, i remember rob pouring flourinert all over my hands.
maybe that's called 'doing a rob' :-)
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* Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer
@ 2000-09-06 13:09 jmk
2000-09-06 21:45 ` Boyd Roberts
0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: jmk @ 2000-09-06 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
James A. Robinson <jim.robinson@stanford.edu>:
I wonder if the Bell Labs folks ever considered porting
the CPU server code to something like one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=426080142
We used to have our own Cray, it lived in a room 3 doors down the corridor
from my office (still called 'the Cray room'). That room is now filled with
a jumble of Pathstar development hardware, but all the power and cooling
is still there.
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