[geeks] sigh.

[Chris Byrne]

I got to play on a brand new well loaded 15k a little while back (72 proc,
288GB ram). I'm still drooling at what it was capable of. The system was
handling ALL of the transaction processing for something like 70% of the POS
terminals in Ireland, plus all the credit card and debit card transaction
processing for three of Irelands five largest banks. That took up about 5%
of the systems time. As an amusement the admin was running continuous disk
benchmarks to his three different attached storage subsystems #(a T3, a
Symmetrix, and an MTI box). Another 25% of the system. The only time the
thing ever went over 50% was when they were doing DB snapshots for their dev
machines.

They also had a brand new fully loaded 6800. They weren't doing anything
with it. It was just sitting there and apparently had been for a couple of
months. The machine cost them 600k and they just let it sit there.

I want one. I have no idea what I would ever do with it since I don't use
half of my currently available computing power, but I still want one.

Oh and am I the only person who finds it obscene that a box a bit bigger
then my fridge is worth 10 times my house?

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
> Of Bill Bradford
> Sent: 18 April 2002 05:42
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] sigh.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:35:58PM -0700, Stefan Molnar wrote:
> > I refuse to go near a 6500 since the back plane is slower than anything.
> > I have seen and felt at times where a 4x4 420r can out compile a fully
> > loaded e6500.  Shoot that 6500 and make it into a nice case for other
> > boxes.
>
> Yeah, but I *like* the Exx00 series and architecture.  Its just a nice
> design.  Dated now, yes, but still a nice design.  I havent gotten to
> see any of the US-III stuff yet except for the 280R/SB1K.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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