[rescue] WTB: Ultra-class System

[Brian]

I was mostly thinking of the big case, to allow for the cards and disks to
be easily installed.  I missed the not much proc power needed part.

Perhaps an axi based system?


	Brian

The path to a desireable destination
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Loomis, Rip wrote:

> > build an axmp based clone in a 4u chassis, stick in whatever drive you
> > choose??
>
> That would seem to be a ludicrous answer if all Mike originally
> wanted was a way to put a big SCA disk on a FDDI network--and
> he specifically said that he didn't need CPU.  I think that an
> SS/20 + a 611 case is probably *much* cheaper (like an order
> of magnitude) than your AXmp solution--and probably satisfies
> Mike's requirements almost as well.
>
> > The path to a desireable destination
> > is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.
>
> One of the thing that makes such paths more difficult (in my
> experience) is when I ask for help on a mailing list and someone
> suggests things like "a beowulf cluster would do that".  Okay,
> so what?  How about a real-world solution?
>
> </sarcasm>
>
>   --Rip
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