Jignesh K. Shah wrote:


On 05/27/09 22:00, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andy,

I have a Sun blade 1000 that's just collecting dust now days.  I was
wondering if there were any pg-hackers that could find use for it.

Its dual UltraSPARC III 750 (I think) and has two 36? gig fiber channel
scsi disks.

It weighs a ton.

I'd be happy to donate it to a good cause.

Feh, as much as we need more servers, we're really limited in our ability to accept stuff which is large & high power consumption.

Now, if we had a DSL line we could hook it to, I could see using it for the buildfarm; it would be interesting old HW / old Solaris for us.


Actually I think you can use cutting edge OpenSolaris 2009.06 release (which will happen in less than a week) for SPARC on that hardware. I haven't tried it out on Sun Blade 1000/2000 yet but in theory you can. Refer to the following thread

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-February/014134.html

Though you will need an Automated Installer setup to install OpenSolaris on SPARC
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/index.html


Regards,
Jignesh



Well that could be fun to play with. I have snv_99 on there now, so I'm not too outdated. The two drives are in a zfs mirror and as long as you use both processors its a pretty snappy box. (gmake vs gmake -j 4 is noticeably faster)

But still.. I'm buying a new computer and need to clear out some of the old one's first. (I took a count, and I have about 11 computers, counting anything I can ssh to or run apache on as a computer (so my gf's iTouch counts as a computer))

-Andy

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