From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o8F3p43w163641 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:51:05 -0500 Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 53CB5DDE8E8 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greer.hardwarefreak.com (mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net [65.41.216.221]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id hA8XLA30fxiWBHQB for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.100.53] (gffx.hardwarefreak.com [192.168.100.53]) by greer.hardwarefreak.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C921A6C04C for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:51:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4C9042D7.90001@hardwarefreak.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:51:51 -0500 From: Stan Hoeppner MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Now: Debian issues, WAS: XFS Filesystem not mounting References: <29704010.post@talk.nabble.com> <20100914012151.GF411@dastard> <29705139.post@talk.nabble.com> <201009140740.14482@zmi.at> <20100914082504.4109712d@galadriel.home> <29708085.post@talk.nabble.com> <201009141603.24754@zmi.at> <4C8F9E29.2000803@hardwarefreak.com> <29710491.post@talk.nabble.com> <4C8FB8D6.6080603@hardwarefreak.com> <20100914223201.21c3bd0f@galadriel.home> <29714426.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <29714426.post@talk.nabble.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs