[rescue] what are these Cray thingies worth?

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Sun Feb 24 18:56:56 CST 2002


On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 07:47:01PM -0500, Dave McGuire 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
server machine?  I would think throughput would be tremendous and
database performance would be pretty smoking too.

Does it run the same Unicos as the other ones?

./patrick



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