Re: FS: Cray J932SE system
That is quite an impressive pile of sgi. Do you have any of the big sgi gear around still? The last of my big SGI was a full rack SGI Origin 2000 (one of my favorites!) I posted it for free or something on NekoChan and a local person (I was in Virginia Beach at the time) came and picked it up. Fast forward a few years. I moved to Northern Virginia took a different job. Got randomly let go/laid off when the company was aquired (it wasn't a bad thing!) Had a few new offers on the table for jobs and the one I chose -- the guy that has the old Origin 2000 is now my coworker! He moved up this way a year or so ago, and still has it. He was planning to Numalink it to his existing full rack Onyx2 IIRC. He has a Fuel on his desk at work (mostly just for fun) but the power supply is dead in it or something. There is a spare Fuel motherboard nearby as well. The Challenge XLs I think I sold pretty cheaply, there was four Challenge Ls that I gave away (they were given to me free, so ethically wasn't going to sell them!) I had been through 3 deskside Onyxs, I know one is in New Mexico still not sure where the others are. Not sure about the two Crimsons. I still have an Indigo R3000 probably with Elan, which I bought from Reputable Systems years ago. And an Octane dual R12K which was a gift from SGI years ago. I was thinking of selling the Indigo as a complete system but backed off of it. I opened the door the other day and noticed there was a Python dat inside, I can't even remember how that got there? (Those have the firmware to read/write audio via SCSI bus.) The Challenge XL and Onyx racks and even the Origin 2000 -- they're I suppose "not made as well" and are fairly lightweight compared to other large systems. They're friendly large machines. And they've got cool displays of the CPU load on the front. Would recommend if you're going to go for large machines! A few pictures from my an early job of mine as a system admin: https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image01.jpg https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image13.jpg https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image15.jpg https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image20.jpg https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image12.jpg I had a small web hosting thing in VaBeach, early pics of the office (Challenge XL and Origin 2000 and stuff were just for fun, didn't run them all the time) https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/May01/IMG_0320.JPG https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/May01/IMG_0317.JPG
Re: FS: Cray J932SE system
On Saturday (10/10/2015 at 02:51AM -0400), et...@757.org wrote: > > Long gone, but probably some of my favorite boxes were Papa Smurf > and Smurfette: > http://imgur.com/a/C2rGj > > (The big blue Challenge XLs) > > Other computers long gone in the pics as well, from the tinkering > over the years! Was a big SGI fanboy. Me too until I worked there :-( -- Chris Elmquist
Re: FS: Cray J932SE system
That is quite an impressive pile of sgi. Do you have any of the big sgi gear around still? I have a bunch of the smaller workstations but have not managed to get any of the bigger desksides. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:51 AM, wrote: > SYS_CRAYHOST="wopr" >> :-) >> -- >> Chris Elmquist >> > > :-) > > Long gone, but probably some of my favorite boxes were Papa Smurf and > Smurfette: > http://imgur.com/a/C2rGj > > (The big blue Challenge XLs) > > Other computers long gone in the pics as well, from the tinkering over the > years! Was a big SGI fanboy. > > > > -- > Ethan O'Toole > >
Re: FS: Cray J932SE system
SYS_CRAYHOST="wopr" :-) -- Chris Elmquist :-) Long gone, but probably some of my favorite boxes were Papa Smurf and Smurfette: http://imgur.com/a/C2rGj (The big blue Challenge XLs) Other computers long gone in the pics as well, from the tinkering over the years! Was a big SGI fanboy. -- Ethan O'Toole
Re: FS: Cray J932SE system
On Friday (10/09/2015 at 07:36PM -0400), et...@757.org wrote: > > Here is some stuff from last time I played with it: > https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/cray/ SYS_CRAYHOST="wopr" :-) -- Chris Elmquist
FS: Cray J932SE system
If anyone knows anyone looking for a Cray, Cray J932SE system. 32 proc, 2 megawords of RAM as I recall. Has VME IO subsystem, HIPPI channels on a lot of the CPU boards (originally was 4 x J932SE in a hypercube via hippi IIRC.) Has 4 SCSI disks (9GB) although has room for lots more (system checks disk firmware vendor.) I like it but no place to keep it and I don't want to keep moving it between rental house garages. It's currently in Norfolk Virginia, I'm in Northern Virginia. I have pics of it. I'm not sure the Unicos build I have is compatible with it, it kernel panics on startup. I have some software, the SWS Sparcstation 5. Uses 3 x 220v outlets @ 30 amps each. Here is some stuff from last time I played with it: https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/cray/ These are RARE. I think I know of two or three J932SE systems in the wild, one in Germany one in another foreign country. Was looking for $8500 or so. Pound for pound such a better deal than an Altair. -- Ethan O'Toole
