That's a lot of money & will take a while to raise. PS3 is close enough to that that I think we can use it as our reference platform until that's all set up.
Plus then everyone can have their own little dev platform, random comers can poke at the code & run it on a machine they might have anyways without having to ask permission, etc. On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > Personally I think POWER6 is the way to look : > > IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express > > Part# 7998 – 61XA > POWER6 / 4.0GHz 4-cores > 4MB L2 cache per processor core > 4GB Memory > 1 x 73.4GB SAS 10K rpm > > $6,129.00 and then a 7U chassis for it is Model 88861MU at $1,949.25 > > I'm dreaming if I think we would ever get access to the IBM engineers that > know all the device details to ever allow us to get to a serial console > single user mode prompt. > > It is a good dream however. > > Dennis > -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
