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Subject: Re: Quad Xeon questions

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 16:31:09 12/14/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 16:16:23, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
WOW !!!   Did Santa give that to you ??? :-) (-:
I watched it beat Junior on ICC last nite (I saw the tail end of the game)
Jim Walker



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