[rescue] what are these Cray thingies worth?

[Dave McGuire]

On February 24, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> >   The T3D and T3E are Alpha-based, and the CS6400 is SPARC-based.  The
> > T3E is fairly recent; I'm surprised any are turning up used so
> > quickly.  The C90 is fairly old, 1989 or 1990, but it was SO far ahead
> > of its time performance-wise when it was introduced that most are
> > still in production use today.  The C90 is a wonderful machine.
> 
> What kind of power requirements, and would it make a stomping web

  I don't have that info for the T3D/T3E machines, but I'd guess
somewhere along the lines of 15-20KW.

> server machine?  I would think throughput would be tremendous and
> database performance would be pretty smoking too.

  Yes.  Tremendous bandwidth to memory and I/O.

> Does it run the same Unicos as the other ones?

  Sorta.

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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