[geeks] [NOW GEEKS!] E250 temperatures

Jonathan Katz jon at jonworld.com
Mon Apr 14 18:59:46 CDT 2008


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
>  Yeah, I never feel like a machine is REALLY beefy unless it takes more than
>  10-15 minutes to run through a full diag boot (like the big Alpha boxes at
>  $JOB-1).

FIE! We had to go to a level-7 POST on the 15K we had. 72 CPUs and
576GB of RAM would take 30 minutes or so to POST with level-16. That
wasn't fast enough for management. That was two jobs ago.

-Jon



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