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Subject: Re: Quad Xeon questions

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:16:23 12/14/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 08:42:05, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 13, 1998 at 23:53:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 1998 at 22:59:08, Larry Applebaum wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 1998 at 22:16:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>snip...
>>>
>>>>quad xeon is in...  and running on ICC... typical speed is 600-800K nodes
>>>>per sec, max (so far) is 940K...
>>>
>>>What are the specs on that system? Motherboard, processor specs, memory, etc
>>
>>
>>It is based on the 450NX chipset, the chassis is made by Intel, and is called
>>the SC450NX...  has three 400 watt power supplies (hot swappable), slots for
>>16 72 bit buffered EDO RAM with 4-way interleaving (interleaving makes SDRAM
>>worthless).  Comes with three on-board SCSI adapters, two ultra-2 wide
>>(low voltage differential signaling) channels and one narrow scsi channel.
>>Has 3 external drive bays for CDrom/tape/hard drives, plus 6 hot-swap SCA-2
>>connecters in a SCSI Cage...
>>
>>My machine has 4 pentium II/xeon 400mhz processors with 512kb of L2 cache,
>>plus 512mb of RAM.  It has two 4.3 gig 7200 rpm disks for system and so forth,
>>and (hopefully tomorrow) will have three 9.1 gig Ultra2 wide SCSI 10,000 RPM
>>disks with 4 megs of cache per drive (for the complete set of 3-4-5 piece
>>Nalimov tablebases).
>>
>>machine has 8 redundant fans, four for the cpus, 2 for the rest of the MB
>>logic, two for the SCSI cage, plus one internal fan in each power supply for
>>a total of 11 fans (machine stays cool internally, naturally).  Everything is
>>monitored, from power supplies, to temps of the procssors, to each fan's
>>rotating speed (tachometer on each fan) and so forth.
>>
>>machine weighs about 100 lbs...
>>
>>Has a nice cirrus logic video controller (CL5480 I think) plus the usual
>>2 serial ports, parallel port, and USB port...
>>
>>let me know if you want more details...
>>
>>Bob
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Hello Bob,
>One more detail....  what does an animal like that cost?????
>Jim Walker
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


chassis with power supplies/fans installed:  $4,200
xeon 400mhz/512k cache (4)                    4,000
memory (128mb buffered edo DIMM)  (4)         1,200
disks (10K rpm LVDS ultra-2 scsi, 9.1gb) (3)  2,100

total roughly 11,300 give or take a hundred bucks...



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