> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Stefano Curtarolo Bavaresco Vial wrote: > > > Sorry, but for security reason I cannot allow people to use our systems. > > I can understand this. Figured I'd ask anyway :-) > > > If you want, and if autobuilder works under our ES40s, I could recompile > > all woody and give access via ftp for main debian mirror. > > Best person to talk to about the autobuilder is John Goerzen > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who runs the autobuilder for Alpha > currently. He's definitely our expert on getting an autobuilder going and > maintaining it on Alpha. > > > gcc takes very little. All Xfree 4.0 takes 20-25 minutes to go. > > Ouch! I'm compiling potato's XFree86 3.3.6 now and it'll take a few > hours.... > > OT: how much did these things cost? I'm just curious....
ES40 with 4CPus, 32MB cache, and 16GB of memory, costs 85K$ each. You have to add other stuff like hot disks, tapes, and so on ... We have two but we are going to build a beowulf cluster buying more, very soon. They are impressive: the kernel (2.4) takes very very very little ... > > C >
