[SunRescue] New Sun midrange servers...

[Ken Hansen]

The box I watched being built was an Amdhal unit, so I suppose that either Amdhal also has the capability, or an overseas company (like Fujitsu, that was fined for literally stealing MVS and selling at their own OS in the Pacific Rim!) built the centerplane for them...

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian McCloskey [mailto:checkinmystyle at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] New Sun midrange servers...
> 
> 
> >5) The high-end machines are built on-site, at a non-trivial 
> expense (they 
> >don't ship in *really* big boxes, instead a few hundred 
> boxes. (I once 
> >watched a mainframe being built, it took several men several 
> 12-14 hour 
> >days to complete it, and when they were done, it was then 
> ready to be 
> >powered-up for the SEs to test on before cutting over for the client)
> 
> actually the e10k does ship in pretty much one big box. the 
> ssp(s) and other 
> parts ship separately, but the cabinet comes in one crate 
> with the system 
> boards already installed. i believe though, that ibm is still 
> the only 
> company with the facilities able to fabricate the 
> centerplanes among other 
> parts for these and that can't be cheap paying them to build these 
> components. certainly not as cheap as all of the illegal 
> sweatshop labor sun 
> got caught up in a couple of years ago. ;p bottom line is 
> these things 
> aren't cheap to design, build or sell even if cray did most 
> of the design.
> 
> -wu
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