Re: [MLUG] Linux *really* hits the big-time

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Damn I want one for home. I can just see this baby filling up about 90% of
my bedroom.. I could sleep next to it like it was my girlfriend.

Damn when are all the old folks gonna die off so I can get decent work
running Linux on one of these things? Maybe I should look into what kind
of poisons are effective when rubbed on the keys of a keyboard.

Bwahahaha!

*^*^*^*
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.nomadphones.org

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> Jon--
> 
> Thanks for sending that announcement.  It's very impressive.  I'm going to
> make sure our supercomputing people know about it.  Those new 1.3 GHz
> Power4s sound great (we're using 375 MHz Power3s).
> 
> I knew Linux was really going places when IBM decided to adopt it a few
> years ago.  Another reason to expect to see it really take off is that
> people like the people on this list -- mostly young students -- are
> becoming real Linux experts.  Those young guys (nearly all guys, in fact,
> my apologies to the women on the list) will want to use what they know --
> Linux.  Over the years, Linux will take over as the old people die off and
> the young people come to power.
> 
> Despite all that, I think we'd run AIX on a p690, if we get one, because
> we're running AIX on the SP: http://www.msi.umn.edu/sp/ I think all of our
> supercomputers are leased, so they can be upgraded often.  This new IBM
> p690 sounds excellent, so we'll probably end up getting one (or more)
> here, but I don't know when that will happen.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> >
> > So IBM released their p690 server today based on their Power4 chip. You
> > can run AIX or Linux on the thing, and it looks like a complete *beast* at
> > a price that's half of comparable Sun hardware.  The Power4 itself is
> > faster than anything out there (Intel, Alpha, SPARC, you name it), and the
> > configurations available are, shall we say, pretty heavy duty.
> >
> > Top of the line would be:
> >
> > 32-way SMP with 1.3GHz Power4 processors,
> > 256 GB RAM
> > 96 internal drive bays
> > up to 160 PCI adapters
> > 4.6 TB of disk (using currently available drives, I believe).
> >
> > Note that the memory is in gigs and the disk storage is in terabytes.
> > For more info, see:
> >
> > http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/datactr/p690_specs.html
> >
> > But the thing that is most interesting is that you can get Linux to run on
> > it, which means that an OS started by a Finnish tinkerer working on a 386
> > now runs on essentially the most serious computers in the world that fit
> > in one cabinet.
> >
> > Of course, the real question is whether or not this would have won the
> > darts contest. :-)
> >
> > jking
> >
> >
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