[SunRescue] good news

[DaveMcGuiremcguire at neurotica.com]

On October 2, Stou Sandalski wrote:
> First?!? How many of them thigns do you have?

  Two, soon to be four.

> What do you use them for? 

  As soon as I master the art of vector processing...winning lots of
contests comes to mind. :)

  But seriously...personal education, image processing, and vector &
parallel processing research.

     -Dave McGuire



> Stou
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Dave McGuire
> > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 01:08
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: RE: [SunRescue] good news
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   Well, my first Cray was an eBay deal...it's a newer machine, though,
> > and isn't that difficult to move or power.
> > 
> >   Older Crays, however, (and some of the larger newer ones) pull
> > TRULY ENORMOUS amounts of electrical power.  And turn it all into heat.
> > 
> >           -Dave McGuire
> > 
> > On October 1, Stou Sandalski wrote:
> > > This is kinda OT but since this is the only old-skool hardware list I
> > > read... has anyone heard of something about a guy buying a Cray 
> > on eBay for
> > > 40K and having to rent special equipment to transport it 
> > thorugh the states,
> > > then having PG&E install a special power outlet on his house to 
> > power the
> > > thing?
> > > 
> > > STou
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> > > > Behalf Of Bill Bradford
> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 21:17
> > > > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] good news
> > > >
> > > >
> > > <snip>
> > > > you had someone behind the scenes going "NO!  NOT ANOTHER CRAY!
> > > > NOT A SINGLE
> > > > ONE!" 8-)
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
> > > >   mrbill at mrbill.net
> > > >     Austin, TX
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