[rescue] If the price wouldnt be that high... Cray CS6400's

[OutBack Dingo]

If you all can help put it together, and get an Os on it if needed Ill buy the
box, and put it on my pipe. Ive got 6 megs in my garage

On Friday 28 February 2003 15:36, Koyote wrote:
> Skeezics Boondoggle <skeezics at q7.com> writes:
> > Sigh.
> >
> > Well, I've been emailing them since the original auction for three
> > machine went up and generated some buzz here.  Seems I've talked him down
> > from $2500 each, but they still want to move the entire lot.  Ugh.
> >
> > I'm desperate to avoid having them ship these machines off to the
> > scrapper, because I absolutely must have more power supply modules to get
> > my current machine running... The one thing I've asked for several times
> > is an inventory of the major components - system boards, power supplies,
> > CPU modules if possible.  Hard not to be a pest, when the auction *says*
> > to write to them for a complete inventory... :-/
> >
> > I would be willing to coordinate a group buy, if anyone here is seriously
> > interested.  As I mentioned before, "seriously" means:
> >
> > 	You have some place to at least store a cabinet that weighs
> > 	around 1500-1800 lbs, and deal with the shipping costs for an
> > 	item of that size;
> >
> > 	You have three-phase power available, if you want to actually run
> > 	the beastie;
> >
> > 	You can find the appropriate JTAG Sbus card and cable to build up
> > 	an SSP to boot the machine;
> >
> > 	You're willing to join my lobbying group to push Sun to release
> > 	the Cray-specific Solaris bits (the Cray Home Users Group, or
> > 	"CHUG", which implies that Beer is an integral part of every
> > 	meeting).
> >
> >
> > interesting side note:  I sent the URL to my boss and said "Wouldn't
> > it be cool to deploy our new highly-threaded application suite on a pool
> > of 896 CPUs for _only_ $13K?"  On his way to lunch he stopped by and said
> > "That's mighty impressive.  So, how big of a datacenter would we need to
> > run those?"  "Why, there's an empty one down on the 4th floor..." :-)
> >
> > Swinging a deal to house these units here _could_ be an interesting
> > prospect:  we could write up an agreement where you'd buy the machine(s)
> > you want, pay the pro-rated amount for shipping, and I'd set them up and
> > provide an IP address and access to a console server/SSP... submeter the
> > electrical panel and there ya go, you could own your own Cray CS6400 and
> > house it in a proper datacenter!  We'd have to put up webcams, obviously,
> > so you could show it off to your friends. :-)
>
> Speaking of pooling resources. if someone managed to work out a deal
> like that (remote colo), what would it tkae for someone to go in on a
> "group purchase" of one machine for those of us who are being poor
> fathertobe nearly jobless folks?
>
> I could put several hundred dollars in, but not enough to actually pay
> for an entire machine....
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