[9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[James A. Robinson]

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


=)

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Nigel Roles]

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
> 
> 
> =)
> 

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Lucio De Re]

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!>

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Boyd Roberts]

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.

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[jmk]

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.

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Boyd Roberts]

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' :-)

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[rob pike]

> 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

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Boyd Roberts]

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?

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[rob pike]

> 
> 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

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[James A. Robinson]

> > 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)

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Boyd Roberts]

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...

Re: [9fans] Reliable Cray Y-MP C90 Supercomputer

[Boyd Roberts]

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...