Ever fancied collecting supercomputers?

[Steve]

Dan, a good friend of HEXUS over at Armari has a soft spot for crays. He shows Ryszard his collection.

If I were so inclined, and I'm not a small guy, I could quite easily climb inside an empty T90 chassis, into the cooling chamber. And partially empty was what Armari's T90 was until recently. Collecting the chassis is all well and good - they are spectacles of computing history in their own right - but Dan likes to have them functionally complete, even if they'll never crunch another vector calculation again. So having secured the T90 chassis from a UK institution, as it and its sister T90 were being decommissioned, he set about laying the groundwork for obtaining the CPU, I/O and memory boards needed to build the T90 into a full 32 CPU T932.

Some jaw dropping stuff in the article! Check it out here

This article is creating a LOT of interest and is practically maxing out our servers. So, if things are a little slow to respond right now, you have my apologies, but things are settling down.

So, hands up everybody who wants a T90?

[directhex]

pfft, supercomputers. like anyone cares about supercomputers

[DR]

[Atomic]

Very interesting article actually. Good read!

What a crazy hobby tho!

[DR]

You can buy the old crays for about 5k, but to move them you have to get Cray to do it - they also, at that time cripple the machines - it costs about 15k per machine in the end.