[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[xopher]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:27:20PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >   Yeah but...while I have very little experience with college (never
> > attended one) I have hung out at a few.  None that I've seen have THAT
> > kind of hardware.  Heck, UMCP had a network of SPARCstation IPXs as
> > distributed fileservers as late as 1997 or so.
> 
> >   I suppose 600GB of disk CAN cost a fortune if you really want it to.
> 
> Wow.  I guess my buddy at RIT is rather lucky.  He's the sysadmin for
> the CS department.  They've got Ultra 10s in all the labs (which I'm
> not entirely sure were upgrades from the Ultra 1s, but WERE upgrades
> from the Indys).  And they've got E450s as their file servers.  Running
> nice custom RAID boxes from ADS and with nice tape changers.

At UIUC the staff/students cluster (email mostly) are load-balanced
E450s. I heard they have EMC boxen for the storage. The engineering labs
are mostly Ultra 60s (with some HP B2ks). I think all of the Ultra 2s
were replaced with Blade 1000s this year, with the (separate) CS labs
getting a full complement of Blade 1000s as well. It would have been fun
to see the semi show up to unload that haul...

I think we get a discount from Sun :)