From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Now: Debian issues, WAS: XFS Filesystem not mounting
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:51:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9042D7.90001@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29714426.post@talk.nabble.com>
pbrunnen put forth on 9/14/2010 8:07 PM:
> Always was intrigued by the SGI equipment in the labs when I was at
> University... Never played with one though. Checked out the specs of those
> Origin boxes you mention. That was some horsepower for the time.
Some years ago NCSA was selling off some retired 128P O2K systems really
really cheap. I was only about 4 hours away from Urbana Champaign at
the time and was really tempted. I was planning on running _lots_ of
seti@home processes on it, mainly. ;)
The price was really decent for what I'd be getting, but in the end I
just couldn't justify it, no matter how cool it would have been to have
a dual rack 32P SGI Origin 2000 running in the basement, crunching S@H.
The reality check was that I could build a new 4U quad Xeon box at the
time, of about the same overall performance, and with lots more disk,
for a mere fraction of the cost of the used O2K. It wouldn't have the
cool SGI badge or run IRIX, but I wouldn't have to add 220v circuits in
the basement, or acquire a big 220v UPS, or pay a much larger monthly
electric bill.
A single socket 12-core 2 GHz Opteron 6100 series on a SuperMicro mobo
with quad DDR3 memory channels w/32 GB RAM, sitting on your desktop,
would simply run circles around that old 2 rack 32P O2K system, probably
5 to 1 or greater in parallel linpack--for less than $2k.
--
Stan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 3:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-13 23:45 XFS Filesystem not mounting pbrunnen
2010-09-14 1:21 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-14 4:29 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 5:40 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-09-14 6:25 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-14 12:32 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 14:03 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-09-14 16:09 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-14 16:35 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 18:03 ` Now: Debian issues, WAS: " Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-14 20:32 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-09-15 1:07 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-15 3:51 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2010-09-15 13:15 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-15 0:44 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-15 2:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-09-15 0:49 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 16:25 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 4:43 ` pbrunnen
2010-09-14 5:40 ` Dave Chinner
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