Nevermind

[Jator]

EDIT - Remind me to read things more clearly.

 

[phatstyl]

need to add cpu and ram though

 

[ViRGE]

Pst, Ebay isn't a banned word now.

 

[dANt3R]

Since when is eGay an allowed word? We still can't link to it, right?

 

[mechBgon]

e bay

edit: looks like you're right!

 

[networkman]

I'm not interested in it.. FSB options are merely 66/100/133 - no room for modification.

Most crack-rack folks are not gonna want/need the onboard sound and modem; shipping is $29.00 for EACH unit! No discount for multiple units, so now the price is minimum $195.00 each. If you live near the Chicago area, ask and see if you can arrange to pick them up - I'll wager they won't be interested.

EDIT: There is one item on eBay that I am interested in: LINK

 

[Possessed Freak]

this as you know is the most important aspect of that nwm:
Storage Controllers: 4x FC-AL (Dual)

why you ask? just wait 2-3 weeks.... MUAHAHAHAHA

 

[BadThad]

I wonder how that 18 cpu system would crack NWM? They are only 50 MHz cpus, but, there IS 18 of em...lol.

 

[networkman]

Yeah, and 2meg of cache on each of the 18 processors! :Q

I'm hoping to hear from our SETI gurus with SUNs.

PS: It's also only a two hour drive away for me.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I saw a 4 way xeon board. Link

 

[Jator]

My bad, I thought it said it had a PIII 1Ghz already installed. Went back and re-read it, not that great of a deal after all.

/me looks for his glasses.

 

[networkman]

/me spots Jator's glasses and politely hands them to him.

 

[Diffusion]

I looked at that a few days ago. My 40mhz SPARCstation 2 goes through 1 seti unit per 100 hours, I think that 5 hours a unit would be reasonable, as those are 50mhz MicroSparcs instead of 40mhz. There is little real world application for one though. Anything which needs that much processor power will be better run by either a large array of 64bit RISC cpus (at decent speeds), or a beowulf cluster. Each of those processors is about equal to 486s in other tasks, its just that non x86/PowerPC chips do so poorly in so many of the projects, and if I remember correctly, MicroSparcs are 32bit CISC cpus (they may be RISC). Anyhow, the SETI times would be pretty good, maybe even faster then a WU every 5 hours with that 2mb of cache per processor, but it would not compete with a machine (in terms of cost to performance)today in all likelyhood.