[rescue] Cray J90s

[Zach Malone]

Thats rather humorous,
    At least one of those machines is located in australia, and should not
run into problems with exportation.  The other one (IMHO) looked pretty
trashed, I mean, would you sink 3000$ into an untested surplus machine which
looks like its been beaten around quite a fair bit?  I dunno,  I think in
situations like this its all about how well the seller knows about the
hardware.
    Zach Malone
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Cray J90s


>
>   See my last long message for said explanation...the upshot was the
> deals fell through due to export issues, now people are shying away
> from machines that the sellers "are having problems selling".  It's
> interesting psychology.
>
>      -Dave McGuire
>
> On June 12, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > I'd like to here that explanation, and I'm sure most other people here
> > would too.
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > >   Actually, they're both real steals in the grand scheme of things.
> > > The supercomputer secondary market is a very, very strange thing.  If
> > > anyone here is really interested, I'd be happy to explain why these
> > > two (and the third) systems aren't selling worth a damn on eBay, in
> > > spite of being relisted over and over at lower and lower prices.
> >
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