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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