On 08/01/2014 05:35, Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 08/01/2014 04:52, Raúl Porcel wrote: >> >> Indeed! The thing was that a lot of the packages were keyworded and >> marked stable back in the day where the arch was more popular. >> >> But almost all arches except amd64/x86/arm are getting less and less >> popular: >> >> alpha: no new hardware in more than 8+ years >> hppa: being phased out IIRC, and no new workstations(ie, graphics/sound) >> in 5+ years >> ia64: no new workstations in 10 years, new servers are expensive >> ppc*: new workstations are expensive >> sparc: no new workstations in 7+ years, new servers expensive > > Who says they have to be new? Sometimes, the fun is in the old hardware of > yore. I found out last week that sparc32 is still quasi-alive, though it > doesn't appear to have any mainstream kernel maintainers. > > ia64, go search on eBay for old SGI Altix/Prism gear. There's a metric ton > of Altix units being offloaded lately. There was one listing a few weeks > ago that had 10-20 Altix 350 servers, dual or quad CPU, for ~$90 per server. > Even saw an SGI Prism a few days ago (which is just an ia64 variant of the > Tezro).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-ALTIX350-with-Dual-1-5GHZ-SL7ED-2GB-Memory-No-Drives-/161373099998 Up to six SGI Altix 350's available, 2x 1.5GHz ia64 CPUs and 2GB memory. I believe these can be NUMA-linked, too, if anyone can find the cables. $85 + $35 s&h apiece. If my shelf wasn't already crowded with a tape autolibrary, SGI Origin 300, and a SunFire V240, I'd probably consider grabbing one. For anyone in the US, that's a hard price to beat. -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS ku...@gentoo.org 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic
